Job 13:19

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Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

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  • Isa 50:7-8 : 7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore, I have set my face like flint, and I know that I will not be put to shame. 8 He who vindicates me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us face each other. Who is my accuser? Let him confront me.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 But if I say, 'I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,' His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 10:8 : 8 Your hands shaped me and made me, yet now You destroy me completely.
  • Job 13:13 : 13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!
  • Job 19:5 : 5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,
  • Job 33:5-7 : 5 If you can, answer me; prepare yourself before me and take your stand. 6 Look, I am like you before God; I too was formed from clay. 7 See, no fear of me should terrify you, and the pressure I bring will not be heavy upon you.
  • Job 33:32 : 32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 9:19-20
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    19If it is a matter of strength, He is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

    20Even if I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.

  • 18See now, I have prepared my case; I know I will be vindicated.

  • Job 13:13-15
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    81%

    13Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

    15Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.

  • Job 23:4-7
    4 verses
    79%

    4I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

    6Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength.

    7There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 20Only grant me these two things, so that I will not hide myself from You:

  • 4Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • 8He who vindicates me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us face each other. Who is my accuser? Let him confront me.

  • Job 7:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you put me under guard?

  • Job 10:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

    2I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.

  • Job 9:14-15
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    14How then can I answer Him? I would choose my words carefully in His presence.

    15Even if I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I could only plead for mercy with my judge.

  • 6Listen now to my argument and pay attention to the contentions of my lips.

  • 22Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.

  • 20Should it be told to Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

  • 8Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

  • 21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • 5If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • 20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Job 9:27-28
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    27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile,'

    28I still dread all my suffering, for I know You will not hold me innocent.

  • 3But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.

  • 10It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 33:31-32
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    31Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

    32If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you.

  • 7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

  • 3If someone desired to argue with Him, they could not answer Him once in a thousand times.

  • 19Will you never look away from me or leave me alone till I swallow my spit?

  • 35Then I would speak without fear of Him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot.

  • 13Why do you contend with Him? For He does not answer all of man's words.

  • 6If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, what do I lose?

  • 2I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.'

  • 14But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

  • 19Listen to me, Lord! Hear what my accusers are saying!

  • 2Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let the one who argues with God answer.

  • 13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • 21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.

  • 15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

  • 32For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together.

  • 5If you can, answer me; prepare yourself before me and take your stand.

  • 14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • 24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

  • 25If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and make my words nothing?