English Standard Version
Job 19:5
5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument 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,
- New King James Version (NKJV)If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me,
- New Living Translation (NLT)You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
Context of Job 19:5
3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? 4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, 6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me. 7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; 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 them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!
- Psalms 38:16For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!"
- Psalms 41:11By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.
- Psalms 55:12For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.
- Micah 7:8Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
- Zephaniah 2:10This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
- Zechariah 12:7"And the Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 1:6And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.
- Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, "The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire."
- Isaiah 4:1And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach."
- Luke 1:25"Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people."
- Luke 13:2And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way?
- John 9:2And his 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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