Job 13:19
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Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?

that will plead

Job 19:5 But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

Job 33:5-7,32 If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face. . . .

Isaiah 50:7,8 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded. . . .

Romans 8:33 Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth:

if I hold

Job 13:13 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Job 7:11 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said: I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: and there came in my heart as a burning fire, shut up in my bones, and I was wearied, not being able to bear it.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
18If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. 19Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?20Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:…
Cross References
Job 7:21
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

Job 10:8
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

Job 13:20
Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:

Isaiah 50:8
He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.

Lexicon
Can anyone
מִי־ (mî-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

indict
יָרִ֣יב (yā·rîḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7378: To toss, grapple, to wrangle, controversy, to defend

me?
עִמָּדִ֑י (‘im·mā·ḏî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5978: Against, by, from, me, mine, of, that I take, unto,

If
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

so,
עַתָּ֖ה (‘at·tāh)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 6258: At this time

I will be silent
אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ (’a·ḥă·rîš)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

and die.
וְאֶגְוָֽע׃ (wə·’eḡ·wā‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1478: To breathe out, expire


Additional Translations
Can anyone indict me? If so, I will be silent and die.Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

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

For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?

Who is he that contendeth with me? For if I were silent now, I should expire.

Who is he that will contend with me? for now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.

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

Who is he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
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