Job 19:5
But if indeed ye wish to magnify yourselves above me, and to prove against me my disgrace:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
In Context
4Yea, if it be indeed that I have erred, let my error remain with myself.
6Then know for certain that God hath bent me down, and hath laid his net all around me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6And her rival also provoked her continually, in order to make her fret; because the Lord had shut up her womb.
Psalms 35:26Let those be made ashamed and put to the blush together that rejoice at my mishap; let them be clothed with shame and confusion that magnify themselves above me.
Psalms 41:11(41:12) By this do I know that thou art pleased with me, that my enemy doth not triumph over me.
Isaiah 4:1And seven women shall take hold of one man on that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, take but away our reproach.
Zephaniah 2:10This shall they have in recompense for their pride; because they have reproached and made themselves great against the people of the Lord of hosts.
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 →