New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 19:6
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 I have truly erred, My error lodges with me. 5If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me, Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me. 7“Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer; I shout for help, but there is no justice. 8He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths.
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דְּֽעוּ־אֵ֭פוֹ כִּי־אֱל֣וֹהַּ עִוְּתָ֑נִי וּ֝מְצוּד֗וֹ עָלַ֥י הִקִּֽיף׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 19:6
- Job 7:20Have I sinned? What have I done to You, O watcher of men? Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?
- Job 16:11God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
- Psalms 44:9Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor, And do not go out with our armies.
- Psalms 66:10For You have tried us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.
- Job 18:8For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.
- Lamentations 1:12“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain Which was severely dealt out to me, Which the Lord inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.
- Ezekiel 12:13I will also spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. And I will bring him to Babylon in the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
- Ezekiel 32:3Thus says the Lord God, “Now I will spread My net over you With a company of many peoples, And they shall lift you up in My net.
- Hosea 7:12When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly.
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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