Job 19:5

5 Suppose you want to place yourselves above me. Suppose you want to use my shame to prove I'm wrong.

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 already made fun of me many times. You have attacked me without feeling any shame.

4 Suppose it's true that I've gone down the wrong path. Then it's my concern, not yours.

5 Suppose you want to place yourselves above me. Suppose you want to use my shame to prove I'm wrong.

6 Then I want you to know that God hasn't treated me right. In fact, he has captured me in his net.

7 "I cry out, 'Someone harmed me!' But I don't get any reply. I call out for help. But I'm not treated fairly.