Job 19:5

5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

Job 19:5 in Other Translations

5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

5 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,

5 You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.

5 Why do you insist on putting me down, using my troubles as a stick to beat me?

5 If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence 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 Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.

4 If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.

5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

6 then know that God has wronged me and drawn his net around me.

7 “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 35:26; Psalms 38:16; Psalms 55:12