Job 19:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 19:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 35:26
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 38:16
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 55:12
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
Zechariah 12:7
The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
Isaiah 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom Persecution Suffering

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Job’s friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured. Bildad had twice begun with a How long (Job 8:2; 18:2), and therefore Job, being now to answer him particularly, begins with a How long too, Job 19:2. What is not liked is commonly thought long; but Job had more reason to think…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. magnify, &c.--Speak proudly (Ob 12; Eze 35:13). against me--emphatically repeated (Psa 38:16). plead ... reproach--English Version makes this part of the protasis, “if” being understood, and the apodosis beginning at Job 19:6. Better with Umbreit, If ye would become great heroes against me in truth, ye must prove (evince) against me my guilt, or shame, which you assert. In the English Version “…