New Living Translation
Job 19:5
5You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
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 already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly. 4Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours. You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin. 6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net. 7“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me. I protest, 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
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Cross-references for Job 19:5
- Psalms 35:26May those who rejoice at my troubles be humiliated and disgraced. May those who triumph over me be covered with shame and dishonor.
- Psalms 38:16I prayed, “Don’t let my enemies gloat over me or rejoice at my downfall.”
- Psalms 41:11I know you are pleased with me, for you have not let my enemies triumph over me.
- Psalms 55:12It is not an enemy who taunts me— I could bear that. It is not my foes who so arrogantly insult me— I could have hidden from them.
- Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
- Zephaniah 2:10They will receive the wages of their pride, for they have scoffed at the people of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
- Zechariah 12:7“The Lord will give victory to the rest of Judah first, before Jerusalem, so that the people of Jerusalem and the royal line of David will not have greater honor than the rest of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 1:6So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the Lord had kept her from having children.
- Nehemiah 1:3They said to me, “Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
- Isaiah 4:1In that day so few men will be left that seven women will fight for each man, saying, “Let us all marry you! We will provide our own food and clothing. Only let us take your name so we won’t be mocked as old maids.”
- Luke 1:25“How kind the Lord is!” she exclaimed. “He has taken away my disgrace of having no children.”
- Luke 13:2“Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered?
- John 9:2“Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”
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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