Job 13:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 50:7-8 : 7 For the Lord God is my helper; I will not be put to shame: so I have made my face like a rock, and I am certain that he will give me my right. 8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;
  • Job 7:11 : 11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
  • Job 13:13 : 13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.
  • Job 19:5 : 5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
  • Job 33:5-7 : 5 If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward. 6 See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth. 7 Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.
  • Job 33:32 : 32 If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.

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  • Job 9:19-20
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    19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

    20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

  • 18 See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.

  • Job 13:13-15
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    13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

    14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

    15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

  • Job 23:4-7
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    4 I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

    5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

    6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

    7 There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

  • 20 Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

  • 4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • 8 He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

    12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

    2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

  • Job 9:14-15
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    14 How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

    15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

  • 6 Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.

  • 22 Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

  • 20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

  • 8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • 5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • 20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • Job 9:27-28
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    27 If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

    28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

  • 3 But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

  • 10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 33:31-32
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    31 Take note O Job, give ear to me; keep quiet, while I say what is in my mind.

    32 If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.

  • 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • 3 If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

  • 19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

  • 35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

  • 13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

  • 6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

  • 2 I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

  • 14 I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.

  • 19 Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.

  • 2 Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • 21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

  • 15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

  • 32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • 5 If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

  • 14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • 24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • 25 And if it is not so, now, who will make it clear that my words are false, and that what I say is of no value?