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Job 19:4

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And be it indeed that I have erred - Admitting that I have erred, it is my own concern. You have a right to reproach and revile me in this manner. Mine error abideth with myself - I must abide the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 19:1-7

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

In this verse Job must mean to repudiate the offences insinuated against him. The precise force of the second clause, however, is obscure. It might mean, "my error is my own and no matter for your…

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