Job 19:6
Know now, that God turned me upside down, || And has set around His net against me,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
In Context
5If, truly, you magnify yourselves over me, || And decide my reproach against me;
7Behold, I cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
Cross References
Job 7:20I have sinned, what do I do to You, || O watcher of man? Why have You set me for a mark to You, || And I am for a burden to myself—and what?
Job 16:11God shuts me up to the perverse, || And turns me over to the hands of the wicked.
Job 27:2“God lives! He turned aside my judgment, || And the Mighty—He made my soul bitter.
Psalms 66:10For You have tried us, O God, || You have refined us as the refining of silver.
Lamentations 1:13From above He has sent fire into my bone, || And it subdues it, He has spread a net for my feet, || He has turned me backward, || He has made me desolate—all the day sick.
Ezekiel 32:3Thus said Lord YHWH: And I have spread out My net for you, || With an assembly of many peoples, || And they have brought you up in My 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 →