Job 13:18 · KJV
“Behold now, I have ordered {my} cause; I know that I shall be justified.”
— Job 13:18
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Who {is} he {that} will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Job 13 — Context
He also {shall be} my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18Behold now, I have ordered {my} cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19Who {is} he {that} will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20Only do not two {things} unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Cross References
Job 23:4
I would order {my} cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 9:2-3
I know {it is} so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? {with God: or, before God?}
Job 40:7-8
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Isaiah 43:26
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For 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.
Job 9:20
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Romans 8:33-34
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? {It is} God that justifieth.
Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}