Job 19:5
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,and plead against me my reproach;
New Heart English Bible
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 taunted 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: only 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 hosts.
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 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 →