Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
King James Version
In Context
4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
Psalms 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 41:11By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Zephaniah 2:10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
Luke 1:25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on 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 →