God’s Word Translation
Job 19:6
6then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.
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
4Even if it were true that I’ve made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me. 5If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace as an argument against me, then 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. 8“God has blocked my path so that I can’t go on. He has made my paths dark.
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 7:20If I sin, what can I ⌞possibly⌟ do to you since you insist on spying on people? Why do you make me your target? I’ve become a burden even to myself.
- Job 16:11God handed me over to unjust people and threw me into the hands of wicked people.
- Psalms 44:9But now you have rejected and disgraced us. You do not even go along with our armies.
- Psalms 66:10You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.
- Job 18:8His own feet get him tangled in a net as he walks around on its webbing.
- Lamentations 1:12“Doesn’t this affect all of you who pass by? Look and see if there’s any pain like the pain that the Lord has caused me, like the pain that he has made me suffer on the day of his fierce anger.
- Ezekiel 12:13I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my net. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Babylonians, but he will not see it. And that’s where he’ll die.
- Ezekiel 32:3“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: When many nations gather together, I will spread my net over you, and they will haul you up in a net.
- Hosea 7:12When you go, I will spread my net over you. I will snatch you out of the air like a bird. I will punish you for all the evil things you have done.
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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