Job 19:6
Good News Translation
Can't you see it is God who has done this? He has set a trap to catch me.

New Revised Standard Version
know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net around me.

Contemporary English Version
But God is the one at fault for finding fault with me.

New American Bible
Know then that it is God who has dealt unfairly with me, and compassed me round with his net.

Douay-Rheims Bible
At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

God

Job 7:20 I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?

Job 16:11-14 God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked. . . .

Psalm 44:9-14 In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever. . . .

Psalm 66:10-12 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried. . . .

compassed

Job 18:8-10 For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes. . . .

Lamentations 1:12,13 Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger. . . .

Ezekiel 12:13 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my net: and I will bring him into Babylon, into the land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not see it, and there he shall die.

Ezekiel 32:3 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out my net over thee with the multitude of many people, and I will draw thee up in my net.

Hosea 7:12 And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their congregation hath heard.

Context
Job: My Redeemer Lives
5But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches. 6At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.7Behold I shall cry suffering violence, and no one will hear: I shall cry aloud, and there is none to judge.…
Cross References
Luke 21:20
And when you shall see Jerusalem compassed about with an army, then know that the desolation thereof is at hand.

Job 3:23
To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

Job 6:29
Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Job 10:3
Doth it seem good to thee that thou shouldst calumniate me, and oppress me, the work of thy own hands, and help the counsel of the wicked?

Job 16:11
God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 18:8
For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

Job 19:22
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

Job 30:21
Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

Job 40:8
Wilt thou make void my judgment: and condemn me, that thou mayst be justified?

Psalm 66:11
Thou hast brought us into a net, thou hast laid afflictions on our back:

Lamentations 1:13
Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.

Job 19:5
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