Job 19:5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my humiliation against me,

English Standard Version
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,

New American Standard Bible
"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

King James Bible
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you really want to appear superior to me and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

International Standard Version
If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,

American Standard Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

Darby Bible Translation
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,

Young's Literal Translation
If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

Cross References

Job 19:4
And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

Psalm 35:26
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

Psalm 38:16
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

Psalm 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:

Psalm 55:13
But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my acquaintance.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

19:1-7 Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so afflicted; here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemned was capable of excuse. Harsh language from friends, greatly adds to the weight of afflictions: yet it is best not to lay it to heart, lest we harbour resentment. Rather let us look to Him who endured the contradiction of sinners against himself, and was treated with far more cruelty than Job was, or we can be.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. magnify, &c.—Speak proudly (Ob 12; Eze 35:13).

against me—emphatically repeated (Ps 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 "reproach" will mean Job's calamities, which they "pleaded" against him as a "reproach," or proof of guilt.