New Living Translation
Job 19:6
6But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in 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 I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours. 5You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin. But 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. 8God has blocked my way so I cannot move. He has plunged my path into darkness.
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 have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of all humanity? Why make me your target? Am I a burden to you?
- Job 16:11God has handed me over to sinners. He has tossed me into the hands of the wicked.
- Psalms 44:9But now you have tossed us aside in dishonor. You no longer lead our armies to battle.
- Psalms 66:10You have tested us, O God; you have purified us like silver.
- Job 18:8The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit.
- Lamentations 1:12“Does it mean nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see if there is any suffering like mine, which the Lord brought on me when he erupted in fierce anger.
- Ezekiel 12:13Then I will throw my net over him and capture him in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Babylonians, though he will never see it, and he will die there.
- Ezekiel 32:3Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will send many people to catch you in my net and haul you out of the water.
- Hosea 7:12But as they fly about, I will throw my net over them and bring them down like a bird from the sky. I will punish them for all the evil they do.
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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