Job 19:5

5 If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue 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 These ten times you have disgraced me; you are not ashamed [that] you have attacked me.

4 And what is more, [if] I have truly erred, my error remains with me.

5 If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me,

6 know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me [with] his net.

7 "Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry out, but there is no justice.

Footnotes

• [a]. Plural
• [b]. Plural