Job 13:19

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • Isa 50:7-8 : 7 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. 8 [He is] near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who [is] mine adversary? let him come near to me.
  • Jer 20:9 : 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].
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who shall lay any thing 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 ¶ Thine hands have made 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 me, set [thy words] in order before me, stand up. 6 Behold, I [am] according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay. 7 Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
  • Job 33:32 : 32 If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

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    4 I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5 I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

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  • 20 Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

  • 4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

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  • 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

  • 8 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

  • 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].

  • 5 If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:

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    27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

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  • 3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

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  • 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, [even] from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

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  • 19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me.

  • 2 Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct [him]? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

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  • 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!

  • 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 32 For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.

  • 5 If thou canst answer me, set [thy words] in order before me, stand up.

  • 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

  • 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

  • 25 And if [it be] not [so] now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?