Job 19:6
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
In Context
5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Cross References
Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
Psalms 66:10For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
Lamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
Ezekiel 32:3This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw 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 →