Job 19:5

5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against 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 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

4 And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.