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 have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me. 4And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach, 6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net. 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, and I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

Job 19:5 word by word

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

• magnifyגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431
• proveיָכַחyâkach · to rebukeH3198
• reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpâh · reproachH2781

Cross-references for Job 19:5

• Psalms 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
• Psalms 38:16For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified [themselves] against me.
• Psalms 41:11By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
• Psalms 55:12For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me — then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified [himself] against me — then would I have hidden myself from him;
• Micah 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: though I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah shall be a light unto me.
• Zephaniah 2:10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.
• Zechariah 12:7And Jehovah shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified over Judah.
• 1 Samuel 1:6And her adversary provoked her much also, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.
• Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, Those who remain, that are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach; and the wall of Jerusalem is in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire.
• Isaiah 4:1And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, Our own bread will we eat, and with our own garments will we be clothed; only let us be called by thy name; — take away our reproach!
• Luke 1:25Thus has [the] Lord done to me in [these] days in which he looked upon [me] to take away my reproach among men.
• Luke 13:2And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things?
• John 9:2And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this [man] or his parents, that he should 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