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Job 19:6
6But you should realize that God has caused all my troubles. He is the one who has caught me in his trap.
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
4I might have done things that are wrong. But even if that might be true, those wrong things have not hurt you. 5You think that you are better people than I am. Because I have all these troubles, you say that I must be guilty. But 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. 8God has stopped me so that I cannot move forward. He has made my path dark so that I cannot see the way to go.
Read all of Job 19Job 19:6 word by word
דְּֽעוּ־אֵ֭פוֹ כִּי־אֱל֣וֹהַּ עִוְּתָ֑נִי וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ עָלַ֥י הִקִּֽיף׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:6
- Job 7:20You carefully watch what people do. Even if I have done something wrong, it should not cause any trouble for you. So why do you choose to punish me?
- Job 16:11God has allowed evil men to take hold of me. He has put me under the power of wicked men.
- Psalms 44:9But now you have turned against us. You have made us ashamed. When our armies go out to fight a battle, you no longer go with us.
- Psalms 66:10You have tested us, God. You wanted to make us pure, as they make silver pure in a hot fire.
- Job 18:8He does not know where he is going and he walks into a dangerous trap.
- Lamentations 1:12‘Come and really look at me! All you people who pass me do not show any interest in me. But you have never seen anything as sad as I am. The Lord was very angry with me. So it was the Lord who did this to me.
- Ezekiel 12:13I will throw my net over him and I will catch him in my trap. I will take him to Babylon city, in the land of the Chaldeans. But he will not see that land. He will die there.
- Ezekiel 32:3This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will bring a big crowd of people together to catch you in my net. They will use my net to pull you out of the water.
- Hosea 7:12When they fly around like that, I will throw my net over them. I will catch them like birds that fly in the sky. I will punish them as they join together to do evil things.
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
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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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