English Standard Version
Job 19:6
6know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
- New Living Translation (NLT)But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.
Context of Job 19:6
4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. 5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me, know 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. 8He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
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דְּֽעוּ־אֵ֭פוֹ כִּי־אֱל֣וֹהַּ עִוְּתָ֑נִי וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ עָלַ֥י הִקִּֽיף׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:6
- Job 7:20If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?
- Job 16:11God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
- Psalms 44:9But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.
- Psalms 66:10For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.
- Job 18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
- Lamentations 1:12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
- Ezekiel 12:13And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.
- Ezekiel 32:3Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
- Hosea 7:12As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
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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