Job 13:19

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.”

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BSBPD

“Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Who <FI>is<Fi> he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 13:19 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  2. Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
  3. Job 13:13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
  4. Job 19:5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
  5. Job 33:5Refute me if you can; prepare your case and confront me.
  6. Job 33:32But if you have something to say, answer me; speak up, for I would like to vindicate you.
  7. Isaiah 50:7Because the Lord GOD helps Me, I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame.
  8. Isaiah 50:8The One who vindicates Me is near. Who will dare to contend with Me? Let us confront each other! Who has a case against Me? Let him approach Me!
  9. Isaiah 50:9Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
  10. Jeremiah 20:9If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
  11. Romans 8:33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

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