Job 19:5

5 If you look down on me and use my disgrace to criticize me,

Job 19:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 19:5

If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me
Look and talk big, set up themselves for great folk, and resolve to run him down; open their mouths wide against him and speak great swelling words in a blustering manner; or magnify what they called an error in him, and set it out in the worst light they could:

and plead against me my reproach;
his affliction which he was reproached with, and was pleaded against him as an argument of his being a wicked man; if therefore they were determined to go on after this manner, and insist on this kind of proof, then he would have them take what follows.

Job 19:5 In-Context

3 These ten times you've humiliated me; shamelessly you insult me.

4 Have I really gone astray? If so, my error remains hidden inside me.

5 If you look down on me and use my disgrace to criticize me,

6 know then that God has wronged me and enclosed his net over me.

7 If I cry "Violence!" I'm not answered; I shout—but there is no justice.