Job Chapter 13 verse 19 Holy Bible
Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
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Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
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Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
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Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.
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Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
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Who `is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Who is he that will plead with me? Will God himself plead? Or will he depute some one, man or angel? Job is impatient that the pleadings should begin. For now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. Some translate, "For now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost," which they explain to mean, "If God does implead me, I shall take refuge in silence, and straightway expire." But this seems an impossible conclusion, when all that Job has been aiming at and striving for since his opponents taxed him with wickedness has been that he might "speak to the Almighty, and reason with God" (ver. 3). It is far simpler to keep to the translation of the Authorized Version, and understand Job to mean that things have now reached a point at which he must either speak or expire.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) If I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.--A marvellous confession, equivalent to, "If I give up my faith in Him who is my salvation, and my personal innocence, which goes hand-in-hand therewith, I shall perish. To give up my innocence is to give up Him in whom I hold my innocence, and in whom I live."
