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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 boast of your goodness, claiming I am suffering because I am guilty.
"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,
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 rising when Lot reached Zoar.
Suddenly the Lord rained burning sulfur on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
But Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
Early the next morning Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood in the presence of the Lord .
No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that.
If a man has sexual relations with another man, they have done a disgusting thing, and both shall be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
They were enjoying themselves when all of a sudden some sexual perverts from the town surrounded the house and started beating on the door. They said to the old man, "Bring out that man that came home with you! We want to have sex with him!"
If the Lord Almighty had not let some of the people survive, Jerusalem would have been totally destroyed, just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.
Their prejudices will be held against them. They sin as openly as the people of Sodom did. They are doomed, and they have brought it on themselves.
That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.
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.
