Job 13:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Job 13:19 —

Old words in this verse

ghost: — spirit, breath of life.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 50:7-8
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. …
Job 33:32
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Job 13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Romans 8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Topics

Self-Righteousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-22)

Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable. I. He entreats his friends and all the company to let him alone, and not interrupt him in what he was about to say (Job 13:13), but diligently to hearken to it, Job 13:17. He would have his own…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. if, &c.--Rather, “Then would I hold my tongue and give up the ghost”; that is, if any one can contend with me and prove me false, I have no more to say. “I will be silent and die.” Like our “I would stake my life on it” [Umbreit].