Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
In Context
4And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
6know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6And her rival provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because LORD had shut up her womb.
Psalms 35:26Let them be put to shame and confounded together who rejoice at my hurt. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 41:11By this I know that thou delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.
Isaiah 4:1And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel. Only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.
Zephaniah 2:10They shall have this for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of LORD of hosts.
Luke 1:25Thus the Lord has done to me during the days in which he looked, to take away my shame among men.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:2-8
The Reply of Job to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not… Read the whole commentary →