Job 19:6
Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
In Context
5If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
7Lo, I cry out — violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
Cross References
Job 7:20I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself — and what?
Job 16:11God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
Job 27:2God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty — He made my soul bitter.
Psalms 66:10For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.
Lamentations 1:13From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate — all the day sick.
Ezekiel 32:3Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And — I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee 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 →