Job 19:5
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
In Context
4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her viciously to taunt her.
Psalms 35:26May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
Psalms 41:11By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
Isaiah 4:1In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
Zephaniah 2:10This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
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 →