Job 19:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Job 19:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 18:8-10
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. …
Job 7:20
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Job 16:11-14
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. …
Hosea 7:12
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blasphemy Cursing God Net Profanity Speaking Swearing

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. 6)

6. compassed ... net--alluding to Bildad’s words (Job 18:8). Know, that it is not that I as a wicked man have been caught in my “own net”; it is God who has compassed me in His--why, I know not.