- Bible
- Job
- Chapter 19
- Verse 5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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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…
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…
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…
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).
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