Job 19:5

But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, 1 And insult me with reproach. 1

Updated 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; 1 And my words err, and are unseasonable. 1

6Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled me, 1 And has raised his bulwark against me. 1

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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; 1 While they said to me daily, Where is thy God? 1

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 →

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