Job 19:5

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach.

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,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
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:

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,

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 Then responded Job, and said: - ² How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words? ³ These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me. ⁴ And even if indeed I have erred, with myself lodgeth mine error. ⁵ If indeed, against me, ye must needs magnify yourselves, and plead, against me, my reproach. ⁶ Know, then, that, God, hath overthrown me, and, within his net, enclosed me. ⁷ Lo! I cry - out: Violence! but receive no answer, I cry aloud, but there is no vindication;

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
When, the sun, had come forth on the earth, Lot had entered into Zoar.

Genesis 19:24
And, Yahweh, rained, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire, - from Yahweh, out of the heavens:

Genesis 19:26
But his wife looked from behind him, - and became - a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:27
And Abraham gat up early in the morning, unto the place where he had stood before Yahweh;

Leviticus 18:22
And, with mankind, shalt thou not lie as with womankind, - an abomination, it is.

Leviticus 20:13
And any man who lieth with mankind as with womankind, an abomination, have both of them wrought, - they shall, surely be put to death, - their blood, shall be upon themselves.

Judges 19:22
They, were gladdening their heart, when lo! men of the city, men of the sons of the Abandoned One, beset the house round about, beating violently against the door, - and they spake unto the old man the owner of the house, saying, Bring forth the man that hath entered into thy house, that we may know him.

Isaiah 1:9
If, Yahweh of hosts, had not left us a very small remnant, Like Sodom, had we become, Gomorrah, had we resembled.

Isaiah 3:9
The show of their face, hath answered against them, And their sin - like Sodom, have they told, they have not concealed it. Alas for their souls! For they have requited to themselves, calamity.

Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore have been withholden the showers, And, the latter rain, hath not come, - Yet the forehead of an unchaste woman, hast thou, Thou hast refused to 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.