19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
19 Who is he that will plead H7378 with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, H2790 I shall give up the ghost. H1478
19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.
19 Who `is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
19 Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.
19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
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. 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.
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.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
If thou hast anything to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
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.
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
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.
Job 13:23-28
Here,