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

3You have insulted me many, many times. You should be ashamed to attack me like that. 4I might have done things that are wrong. But even if that might be true, those wrong things have not hurt you. You think that you are better people than I am. Because I have all these troubles, you say that I must be guilty. 6But you should realize that God has caused all my troubles. He is the one who has caught me in his trap. 7If I shout, “Help me, I am in trouble!” nobody answers me. I shout to get help, but nobody comes to give me 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 35:26Punish those people who are happy when I have troubles. Make them ashamed and confused! Bring down those proud people who laugh at me. Make them feel very ashamed.
• Psalms 38:16I have prayed that my enemies will not laugh at me. If I slip and fall down, they will be very happy!
• Psalms 41:11They have not won against me, so I know that you are pleased with me!
• Psalms 55:12But it is not my enemies that have insulted me. That would not have hurt me. If my enemy laughs at me, I can always hide from him!
• Micah 7:8My enemy, do not be happy because I am in trouble. I have fallen down, but I will get up. I am in the dark, but the Lord will be a light to me.
• Zephaniah 2:10That will happen to all proud people. The proud people said cruel words to God's people. The cruel people thought that they were greater than the people of the Lord Almighty.
• Zechariah 12:7The Lord will save the homes of the people from Judah first. So David's family and the people who live in Jerusalem will not be greater than the people from Judah.
• 1 Samuel 1:6Peninnah was not kind to Hannah and she made Hannah very upset. She did this because the Lord had not let Hannah give birth to any children.
• Nehemiah 1:3They told me, ‘The Jews who returned to Judah are in much trouble. The walls of the city still have lots of holes in them. Fire has burned the city's gates down to the ground. So the people are very ashamed.’
• Isaiah 4:1In that day, seven women will catch one man and they will hold him. They will say, ‘Please take away our shame. We will buy our own food and we will wear our own clothes. But please, let us belong to you.’
• Luke 1:25‘The Lord has now given me a baby,’ she said. ‘He has been kind to me. Because of this, other people cannot say bad things about me now.’
• Luke 13:2Jesus replied, ‘Think about those people from Galilee. Perhaps you think that they had done more bad things than other people from Galilee. Do you think that is why they had to die?
• John 9:2Jesus' disciples asked him, ‘Teacher, why was this man blind when he was born? Was it because he himself did something wrong? Or was it because his parents did something wrong?’

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