Job 19:5

5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my 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 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

4 If it is true that I have erred, My error remains with myself.

5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

6 Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.