Job 19:5

5 If you want to make yourselves look better than I, you can blame me for my suffering.

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 You have insulted me ten times now and attacked me without shame.

4 Even if I have sinned, it is my worry alone.

5 If you want to make yourselves look better than I, you can blame me for my suffering.

6 Then know that God has wronged me and pulled his net around me.

7 "I shout, 'I have been wronged!' But I get no answer. I scream for help but I get no justice.