Job 19:5

5 If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace 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 You have insulted me ten times now. You're not even ashamed of mistreating me.

4 Even if it were true that I've made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me.

5 If you are trying to make yourselves look better than me by using my disgrace as an argument against me,

6 then I want you to know that God has wronged me and surrounded me with his net.

7 Indeed, I cry, 'Help! I'm being attacked!' but I get no response. I call for help, but there is no justice.