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Job 19:5
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If you really want to appear superior to meand would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,
If you want to make yourselves look better than I, you can blame me for my suffering.
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
"If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,
"If indeed you exalt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,
If truly you magnify yourselves against meAnd argue my disgrace to me,
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
"You may take a superior attitude toward me and cite my disgrace as proof against me;
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
You want me to look bad to make yourselves look good. You say my troubles are proof that I did wrong.
If you have justly magnified yourselves against me, rebuked me, and reproached me,
You think you are better than I am, and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt.
If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me,
If truly you magnify yourself against me, and plead my misery against me,
But yf ye wil enhaunce yor selues agaynst me, & accuse me to be a wicked personne because of the shame that is come vpon me:
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
If indeed yee will magnifie your selues against me, and plead against me my reproch:
But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:
But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
And ye ben reisid ayens me, and repreuen me with my schenschipis.
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:
If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me,
You think you're better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
You put yourselves up high against me, and try to prove my shame to me.
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.
But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,
If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
magnify: Psalms 35:26, Psalms 38:16, Psalms 41:11, Psalms 55:12, Micah 7:8, Zephaniah 2:10, Zechariah 12:7
plead: 1 Samuel 1:6, Nehemiah 1:3, Isaiah 4:1, Luke 1:25, Luke 13:2-4, John 9:2, John 9:34
Reciprocal: Job 13:19 - that will plead
Cross-References
The sun was coming up as Lot reached the town of Zoar,
and the Lord sent burning sulfur down like rain on Sodom and Gomorrah.
On the way, Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a block of salt.
That same morning Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood and spoken with the Lord .
It is disgusting for a man to have sex with another man.
It's disgusting for men to have sex with one another, and those who do will be put to death, just as they deserve.
They were having a good time, when some worthless men of that town surrounded the house and started banging on the door and shouting, "A man came to your house tonight. Send him out, so we can have sex with him!"
Zion would have disappeared like Sodom and Gomorrah, if the Lord All-Powerful had not let a few of its people survive.
The look on your faces shows that you are sinful as Sodom, and you don't try to hide it. You are in for trouble, and you have brought it all on yourselves.
So I, the Lord , refused to let the spring rains fall. But just like a prostitute, you still have no shame for what you have done.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 in a blustering manner; or magnify what they called an error in him, and set it out in the worst light they could:
and plead against me my reproach; his affliction which he was reproached with, and was pleaded against him as an argument of his being a wicked man; if therefore they were determined to go on after this manner, and insist on this kind of proof, then he would have them take what follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 manner. In these circumstances you ought to have pity upon me; Job 19:21. Instead of magnifying yourselves against me, setting yourselves up as censors and judges, overwhelming me with reproaches and filling my mind with pain and anguish, you ought to show to me the sympathy of a friend.” The phrase, “magnify yourselves,” refers to the fact that they had assumed a tone of superiority and an authoritative manner, instead of showing the compassion due to a friend in affliction.
And plead against me my reproach - My calamities as a cause of reproach. You urge them as a proof of the displeasure of God, and you join in reproaching me as a hypocrite. Instead of this, you should have shown compassion to me as a man whom God had greatly afflicted.
