New International Version
Job 19:6
6then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.
Context of Job 19:6
4If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone. 5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me, then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me. 7“Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. 8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness.
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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 have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?
- Job 16:11God has turned me over to the ungodly and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.
- Psalms 44:9But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
- Psalms 66:10For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.
- Job 18:8His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
- Lamentations 1:12“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the Lord brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
- Ezekiel 12:13I will spread my net for him, and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylonia, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die.
- Ezekiel 32:3“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘With a great throng of people I will cast my net over you, and they will haul you up in my net.
- Hosea 7:12When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.
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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