KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 13:18–19
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Job 13:18
18Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
18Behold now, I haue ordered my cause, I know that I shall be iustified.
Job 13:19
19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
19Who is hee that will plead with me? for now if I hold my tongue, I shall giue vp the ghost.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 13:18
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Regulated; methodized; disposed; commanded; managed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A reason, ground, matter in dispute, or judicial case; as a verb, to make something happen.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Declared righteous or acquitted; shown or proved to be right; or made to appear comparatively more righteous, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Skeat 1893 (headword: justify) · Webster 1828 (headword: justify)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 13:19
To discuss, defend and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons offered to the tribunal or person who has the power of determining. In Scripture, to plead the cause of the righteous, as God, is to avenge or vindicate them against enemies, or to redress their grievances.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
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The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
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To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The spirit; in 'give up the ghost,' to yield the spirit and die.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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From verse 18
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Open the full verse study4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
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Open the full verse study2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
3If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
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Open the full verse study12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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Open the full verse study26Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
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Open the full verse study21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
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Open the full verse study7Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
8Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
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Open the full verse study20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Open the full verse study33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
From verse 19
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Open the full verse study7¶ 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.
8He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
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Open the full verse study9Then 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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Open the full verse study8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
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Open the full verse study13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
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Open the full verse study5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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Open the full verse study32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
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Open the full verse study5If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
6Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
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Open the full verse study11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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Open the full verse study33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
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