Job 19:5

Myles Coverdale Bible

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:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If you really want to appear superior to meand would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

Hebrew Names Version
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

King James Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

English Standard Version
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,

New Century Version
If you want to make yourselves look better than I, you can blame me for my suffering.

New English Translation
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

Amplified Bible
"If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,

New American Standard Bible
"If indeed you exalt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

World English Bible
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

Geneva Bible (1587)
But in deede if ye will aduance your selues against me, and rebuke me for my reproche,

Legacy Standard Bible
If truly you magnify yourselves against meAnd argue my disgrace to me,

Berean Standard Bible
If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

Contemporary English Version
You boast of your goodness, claiming I am suffering because I am guilty.

Complete Jewish Bible
"You may take a superior attitude toward me and cite my disgrace as proof against me;

Darby Translation
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,

Easy-to-Read Version
You want me to look bad to make yourselves look good. You say my troubles are proof that I did wrong.

George Lamsa Translation
If you have justly magnified yourselves against me, rebuked me, and reproached me,

Good News Translation
You think you are better than I am, and regard my troubles as proof of my guilt.

Lexham English Bible
If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me,

Literal Translation
If truly you magnify yourself against me, and plead my misery against me,

American Standard Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

Bible in Basic English
If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

King James Version (1611)
If indeed yee will magnifie your selues against me, and plead against me my reproch:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But alas! for ye magnify yourselves against me, and insult me with reproach.

English Revised Version
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye ben reisid ayens me, and repreuen me with my schenschipis.

Update Bible Version
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

Webster's Bible Translation
If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:

New King James Version
If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me,

New Living Translation
You think you're better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.

New Life Bible
You put yourselves up high against me, and try to prove my shame to me.

New Revised Standard
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But you set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches.

Revised Standard Version
If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me,

Young's Literal Translation
If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,

Contextual Overview

¹ Iob answered, & sayde: ² How loge wil ye vexe my mynde, & trouble me with wordes? ³ Lo, ten tymes haue ye reproued me: are ye not ashamed, for to laugh me so to scorne? ⁴ yf I go wronge, I go wronge to my self. ⁵ 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: ⁶ knowe this then, yt it is God, which hath handled me so violetly, & hath compased me aboute with his scourges. ⁷ Beholde, though I crie, yet violece is done vnto me, I can not be herde: Though I complane, there is none to geue sentece with me.

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

Genesis 19:23
And the Sonne was vp vpon the earth, whan Lot came in to Zoar.

Genesis 19:24
Then the LORDE caused brymstone and fyre to rayne downe from the LORDE out of heauen vpon Sodoma and Gomorra,

Genesis 19:26
And his wife loked behynde her, and was turned into a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:27
Abraham rose vp early in the mornynge, and gat him vnto the place, where he had stonde before the LORDE,

Leviticus 18:22
Thou shalt not lye with mankynde as with womankynde, for yt is abhominacion.

Leviticus 20:13
Yf eny man lye with the mankynde, as with womankynde, they haue wrought abhominacion, & shal both dye the death: their bloude be vpon them.

Judges 19:22
And wha their hert was now ioyfull, the men of the cyte, the children of Belial, came, and compased the house rounde aboute, and rußshed at ye dore, and sayde vnto ye olde man, which was the good man of ye house: Bringe out the ma which is come in to thy house, that we maye knowe him.

Isaiah 1:9
And excepte the LORDE of hostes had left us a few alyue: we shulde haue bene as Sodoma, & like vnto Gomorra.

Isaiah 3:9
The chaunginge of their countenaunce bewrayeth them, yee they declare their owne synnes them selues, as the Sodomites, & hyde the not. Wo be vnto their soules, for they shalbe heuely rewarded.

Jeremiah 3:3
This is the cause, that the rayne and euenynge dew hath ceased. Thou hast gotten the an whores foreheade, and canst not be ashamed.

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.