Job 19:6

Job 19:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
• New International Version (NIV)then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.

Context of Job 19:6

4And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net. 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice. 8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 19:6 word by word

דְּֽעוּ־אֵ֭פוֹ כִּי־אֱל֣וֹהַּ עִוְּתָ֑נִי וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ עָלַ֥י הִקִּֽיף׃Read the interlinear

• Knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• Godאֱלֹהַּ'ĕlôahh 'ĕlôahh · godH433
• netמְצוּדָהmâtsûd metsûdâh metsûdâh · netH4686

Cross-references for Job 19:6

• Job 7:20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
• Job 16:11God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
• Psalms 44:9But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
• Psalms 66:10For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
• Job 18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
• Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
• Ezekiel 12:13My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
• Ezekiel 32:3Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
• Hosea 7:12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

Commentaries on Job 19:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Know now that God hath overthrown me - The matter is between him and me, and he has not commissioned you to add reproaches to his chastisements. And hath compassed me with his net - There may be an allusion here to the different modes of hunting which have been already referred to in the preceding chapter. But if we take the whole verse together, and read the latter clause before the former, thus, "Know, therefore, that God hath encompassed me with his…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Know now that God - Understand the case; and in order that they might, he goes into an extended description of the calamities which God had brought upon him. He wished them to be “fully” apprised of all that he had suffered at the hand of God. Hath overthrown me - The word used here (עות ‛âvath ) means to bend, to make crooked or curved; then to distort, prevert: them to overturn, to destroy; Isaiah 24:1; Lamentations 3:9. The meaning here is, that he…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Job believed justice delayed and that God was unfair it how he had treated him (19:7; 19:8–12). Later, Elihu and God disagreed (34:12; 40:2). drawn His net around me: Job might have been replying to Bildad’s accusation (18:8–10).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. compassed ... net--alluding to Bildad's words (Job 18:8). Know, that it is not that I as a wicked man have been caught in my "own net"; it is God who has compassed me in His--why, I know not.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 19:6

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Blasphemy
• Net

In the dictionaries

• God
• Acquaintance
• Fence
• Mouth
• Net
• Subvert

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