Job 19:5
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,
World English Bible Updated
In The King James Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
In Context
4If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Psalms 35:26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 41:11By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
Isaiah 4:1Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”
Zephaniah 2:10This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of Armies.
Luke 1:25“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at 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 →