Job 19:5
If, truly, you magnify yourselves over me, || And decide my reproach against me;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
In Context
4And also—truly, I have erred, || My error remains with me.
6Know now, that God turned me upside down, || And has set around His net against me,
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6and her rival has also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for YHWH has shut up her womb.
Psalms 35:26They are ashamed and confounded together, || Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, || Who are magnifying themselves against me.
Psalms 41:11By this I have known, || That You have delighted in me, || Because my enemy does not shout over me.
Isaiah 4:1And seven women have taken hold on one man, || In that day, saying, “We eat our own bread, || And we put on our own raiment, || Only, let your name be called over us, || Remove our reproach.”
Zephaniah 2:10This [is] to them for their arrogancy, || Because they have reproached, || And they magnify [themselves] against the people of YHWH of Hosts.
Luke 1:25“Thus the LORD has done to me, in days in which He looked on [me], to take away my reproach among 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 →