Job 19:6
Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
In Context
5If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
Cross References
Job 7:20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
Job 16:11God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
Job 27:2By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
Psalms 66:10For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.
Lamentations 1:13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
Ezekiel 32:3This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-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 →