God’s Word Translation
Job 19:5
5If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace as 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,
- 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 ten times now. You’re not even ashamed of mistreating me. 4Even if it were true that I’ve made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me. If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace as an argument against me, 6then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net. 7Indeed, I cry, ‘Help! I’m being attacked!’ but I get no response. I call for help, but there is no justice.
Read all of Job 19Job 19:5 word by word
אִם־אָ֭מְנָם עָלַ֣י תַּגְדִּ֑ילוּ וְתוֹכִ֥יחוּ עָ֝לַ֗י חֶרְפָּתִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 19:5
- Psalms 35:26Let those who gloat over my downfall be thoroughly put to shame and confused. Let those who promote themselves at my expense be clothed with shame and disgrace.
- Psalms 38:16I said, “Do not let them gloat over me. When my foot slips, do not let them promote themselves at my expense.”
- Psalms 41:11and my enemy cannot shout in triumph over me. When you do this, I know that you are pleased with me.
- Psalms 55:12If an enemy had insulted me, then I could bear it. If someone who hated me had attacked me, then I could hide from him.
- Micah 7:8Don’t laugh at me, my enemies. Although I’ve fallen, I will get up. Although I sit in the dark, the Lord is my light.
- Zephaniah 2:10This is what they will get for their sinful pride, because they insulted the people who belong to the Lord of Armies and made themselves greater than them.
- Zechariah 12:7“The Lord will save Judah’s tents first so that the honor of David’s family and the honor of those who live in Jerusalem will not be greater than the honor of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 1:6Because the Lord had made her unable to have children, her rival ⌞Peninnah⌟ tormented her endlessly in order to make her miserable.
- Nehemiah 1:3They told me, “Those who survived captivity are in the province. They are enduring serious troubles and being insulted. The wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.”
- Isaiah 4:1When that day comes, seven women will grab one man and say, “We’ll eat our own food and provide our own clothes. Just let us marry you for your name. Take away our disgrace.”
- Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me now. He has removed my public disgrace.”
- Luke 13:2Jesus replied to them, “Do you think that this happened to them because they were more sinful than other people from Galilee?
- John 9:2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, why was this man born blind? Did he or his parents sin?”
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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