New King James Version
Job 19:5
5If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace 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 Living Translation (NLT)You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
Context of Job 19:5
3These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me. 4And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me. If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me, 6Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net. 7“If I cry out concerning wrong, I am not heard. If I cry aloud, 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 them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion Who rejoice at my hurt; Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor Who exalt themselves against me.
- Psalms 38:16For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me, Lest, when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me.”
- Psalms 41:11By this I know that You are well pleased with me, Because my enemy does not triumph over me.
- Psalms 55:12For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; Then I could bear it. Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me; Then I could hide from him.
- Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The Lord will be a light to me.
- Zephaniah 2:10This they shall have for their pride, Because they have reproached and made arrogant threats Against the people of the Lord of hosts.
- Zechariah 12:7“The Lord will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 1:6And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb.
- Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- Isaiah 4:1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel; Only let us be called by your name, To take away our reproach.”
- Luke 1:25“Thus the Lord has dealt with me, in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”
- Luke 13:2And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
- John 9:2And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
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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