Job 13:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִי־ה֭וּא יָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י כִּֽי־עַתָּ֖ה אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ וְאֶגְוָֽע׃

Transliteration

mî-hûʾ yārîb ʿimmādî kî-ʿattâ ʾaḥărîš weʾegwāʿ

Grammar Details

*mî*: interrogative pronoun - who
*hûʾ*: pronoun, 3rd person masculine singular - he
*yārîb*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - will contend
*ʿimmādî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - with me
*kî*: conjunction - for/because/that
*ʿattâ*: adverb - now
*ʾaḥărîš*: verb, Hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will be silent
*weʾegwāʿ*: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect, 1st person singular - and I will expire/die

Word Meanings

*yārîb*: will contend/will argue against/will bring charges against
*ʾaḥărîš*: I will be silent/I will hold my peace
*ʾegwāʿ*: I will expire/I will die/I will perish

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Isa 50:7-8 : 7 For the Lord Jehovah will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. 8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
Jer 20:9 : 9 And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot [contain].
Rom 8:33 : 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;
Job 7:11 : 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:8 : 8 Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Job 13:13 : 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.
Job 19:5 : 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
Job 33:5-7 : 5 If thou canst, answer thou me; Set [thy words] in order before me, stand forth. 6 Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay. 7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.
Job 33:32 : 32 If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee.

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