Job 19:5

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

3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remaineth with myself. If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net. 7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

Job 19:5 word by word

אִם־אָ֭מְנָם עָלַ֣י תַּגְדִּ֑ילוּ וְתוֹכִ֥יחוּ עָ֝לַ֗י חֶרְפָּתִּֽי׃Read the interlinear

• indeedאׇמְנָם'omnâm · trulyH551
• magnifyגָּדַלgâdal · to magnifyH1431
• pleadיָכַחyâkach · to rebukeH3198
• reproachחֶרְפָּהcherpâh · reproachH2781

Cross-references for Job 19:5

• Psalms 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
• Psalms 38:16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
• Psalms 41:11By this I know that thou favourest me, because my enemy doth not triumph over me.
• Psalms 55:12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it : neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
• Micah 7:8Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light to me.
• Zephaniah 2:10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
• Zechariah 12:7The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not magnify themselves against Judah.
• 1 Samuel 1:6And her adversary also provoked her greatly, to make her fret, because the LORD had closed up her womb.
• Nehemiah 1:3And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is 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 bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
• Luke 1:25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
• Luke 13:2And Jesus answering said to them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
• John 9:2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, 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

Topics related to Job 19:5

• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Acquaintance
• Fence
• Mouth
• Net
• Plead

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