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Hiob 19:5

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5 Wollt ihr wahrlich euch über mich erheben und wollt meine Schmach mir beweisen,

Hiob 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.

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Hiob 19:5 In-Context

3 Ihr habt mich nun zehnmal gehöhnt und schämt euch nicht, daß ihr mich also umtreibt.
4 Irre ich, so irre ich mir.
5 Wollt ihr wahrlich euch über mich erheben und wollt meine Schmach mir beweisen,
6 so merkt doch nun einmal, daß mir Gott Unrecht tut und hat mich mit seinem Jagdstrick umgeben.
7 Siehe, ob ich schon schreie über Frevel, so werde ich doch nicht erhört; ich rufe, und ist kein Recht da.
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