Job 19:5

5 But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.

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 Ye speak against me; ye do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

4 Yea verily, I have erred in truth, (but the error abides with myself) in having spoken words which it was not right ; and my words err, and are unreasonable.

5 But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.

6 Know then that it is the Lord that has troubled , and has raised his bulwark against me.

7 Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: I will cry out, but nowhere judgment.