Job 19:5
But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
In Context
4a in having spoken words which it was not right to speak; and my words err, and are unseasonable.
6Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me, and has raised his bulwark against me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6For the Lord gave her no child in her affliction, and according to the despondency of her affliction; and she was dispirited on this account, that the Lord shut up her womb so as not to give her a child.
Psalms 41:11While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is thy God?
Isaiah 4:1And seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own raiment: only let thy name be called upon us, and take away our reproach.
Zephaniah 2:10This is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty.
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 →