Job 19:6
know now that God has subverted me, and has encompassed me with his net.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
In Context
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
Cross References
Job 7:20If I have sinned, what do I do to thee, O thou watcher of men? Why have thou set me as a mark for thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 16:11God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 27:2As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.
Psalms 66:10For thou, O God, have proved us. Thou have tried us as silver is tried.
Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
Ezekiel 32:3Thus says lord LORD: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples, and they shall bring thee up in my net.
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 →