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Job 19:5

Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Know now that God hath overthrown me,.... He would have them take notice that all his afflictions were from the hand of God; and therefore should take care to what they imputed any acts of his, whose…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

If, indeed, ye will magnify yourselves against me - This is connected with the next verse. The sense is, “all these calamities came from God. He has brought them upon me in a sudden and mysterious…

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

If his friends mean in earnest to found inferences on his calamities then he will tell them that it is Godwho hath brought these on him unjustly (Job 19:19).