Christian Standard Bible
Job 19:5
5If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
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
3You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame. 4Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me. If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me, 6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and caught me in his net. 7I cry out, “Violence!” but get no response; I call for help, but there is no justice.
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אִם־אָ֭מְנָם עָלַ֣י תַּגְדִּ֑ילוּ וְתוֹכִ֥יחוּ עָ֝לַ֗י חֶרְפָּתִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:5
- Psalms 35:26Let those who rejoice at my misfortune be disgraced and humiliated; let those who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and reproach.
- Psalms 38:16For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me — those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”
- Psalms 41:11By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.
- Psalms 55:12Now it is not an enemy who insults me — otherwise I could bear it; it is not a foe who rises up against me — otherwise I could hide from him.
- Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will stand up; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
- Zephaniah 2:10This is what they get for their pride, because they have taunted and acted arrogantly against the people of the Lord of Armies.
- Zechariah 12:7The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of David’s house and the glory of Jerusalem’s residents may not be greater than that of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 1:6Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.
- Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “The remnant in the province, who survived the exile, are in great trouble and disgrace. Jerusalem’s wall has been broken down, and its gates have been burned.”
- Isaiah 4:1On that day seven women will seize one man, saying, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothing. Just let us bear your name. Take away our disgrace.”
- Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me. He has looked with favor in these days to take away my disgrace among the people.”
- Luke 13:2And he responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?
- John 9:2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was 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
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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
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