| Geneva Study Bible Who is he that will plead {h} with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall {i} give up the ghost. (h) To prove that God punishes me for my sins. (i) If I do not defend my cause, every man will condemn me. Wesley's Notes 13:19 The ghost - My grief would break my heart, if I should not give it vent. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 19. if, &c.-Rather, "Then would I hold my tongue and give up the ghost"; that is, if any one can contend with me and prove me false, I have no more to say. "I will be silent and die." Like our "I would stake my life on it" [Umbreit]. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 13:13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Temporal salvation he little expected, but of his eternal salvation he was very confident; that God would not only be his Saviour to make him happy, but his salvation, in the sight and enjoyment of whom he should be happy. He knew himself not to be a hypocrite, and concluded that he should not be rejected. We should be well pleased with God as a Friend, even when he seems against us as an enemy. We must believe that all shall work for good to us, even when all seems to make against us. We must cleave to God, yea, though we cannot for the present find comfort in him. In a dying hour, we must derive from him living comforts; and this is to trust in him, though he slay us. | 
