Job 19:5

Job 19:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
• New International Version (NIV)If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,
• English Standard Version (ESV)If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,
• New King James Version (NKJV)If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me,

Context of Job 19:5

3These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me]. 4And if it were true that I have erred, My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it]. If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me, 6Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me And has closed His net around me. 7“Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not heard; I shout for help, but there is no justice.

Job 19:5 word by word

אִם־אָ֭מְנָם עָלַ֣י תַּגְדִּ֑ילוּ וְתוֹכִ֥יחוּ עָ֝לַ֗י חֶרְפָּתִּֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• If indeedאׇמְנָם'omnâm · trulyH551
• ye will magnifyגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431
• against me, and pleadיָכַחyâkach · to rebukeH3198
• against me my reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpâh · reproachH2781

Cross-references for Job 19:5

• Psalms 35:26Let those be ashamed and humiliated together who rejoice at my distress; Let those be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves over me.
• Psalms 38:16For I pray, “May they not rejoice over me, Who, when my foot slips, would boast against me.”
• Psalms 41:11By this I know that You favor and delight in me, Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.
• Psalms 55:12For it is not an enemy who taunts me— Then I could bear it; Nor is it one who has hated me who insolently exalts himself against me— Then I could hide from him.
• Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me [amid my tragedies], O my enemy! Though I fall, I will rise; Though I sit in the darkness [of distress], the Lord is a light for me.
• Zephaniah 2:10This they shall have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Lord of hosts.
• Zechariah 12:7The Lord shall save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem will not be magnified above Judah.
• 1 Samuel 1:6Hannah’s rival provoked her bitterly, to irritate and embarrass her, because the Lord had left her childless.
• Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “The remnant there in the province who survived the captivity are in great distress and reproach; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its [fortified] gates have been burned (destroyed) by fire.”
• Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women will take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own food and wear [and provide] our own clothes; only let us be called by your name; take away our shame [of being unmarried].”
• Luke 1:25“This is how the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He looked with favor on me, to take away my disgrace among men.”
• Luke 13:2Jesus replied to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans because they have suffered in this way?
• John 9:2His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi (Teacher), who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

Commentaries on Job 19:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5If, indeed, ye will magnify yourselves against me - This is connected with the next verse. The sense is, “all these calamities came from God. He has brought them upon me in a sudden and mysterious manner. In these circumstances you ought to have pity upon me; Job 19:21. Instead of magnifying yourselves against me, setting yourselves up as censors and judges, overwhelming me with reproaches and filling my mind with pain and anguish, you ought to show to me…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. magnify, &c.--Speak proudly (Ob 12; Eze 35:13). against me--emphatically repeated (Psa 38:16). plead ... reproach--English Version makes this part of the protasis, "if" being understood, and the apodosis beginning at Job 19:6. Better with Umbreit, If ye would become great heroes against me in truth, ye must prove (evince) against me my guilt, or shame, which you assert. In the English Version "reproach" will mean Job's calamities, which they "pleaded"…Read the comment

Topics related to Job 19:5

• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Acquaintance
• Fence
• Mouth
• Net
• Plead

Commentaries on Job 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings