Job 19:5
If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
In Context
4And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.
6Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;
Psalms 35:26Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.
Psalms 41:11\41:10\But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment.
Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.
Zephaniah 2:10This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.
Luke 1:25The Lord has done this to me, for his eyes were on me, to take away my shame in the eyes of 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 →