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Job 19:5

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 19:6).

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See also Job 19:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 man...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 19. JOB'S ANSWER. Here the gradual progress of Job's soul towards faith reaches its climax (Job 19:25 f.). It is to be remembered that Job's problem is in reality twofold: it has a personal side,...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. He has been overthrown by God. (Job 9:5-12) TEXT 19:5-12 5 IF INDEED YE WILL MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME, And plead against me my reproach; 6 Know now that God hath subverted me _in my cause,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IF INDEED YE WILL MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME, AND PLEAD AGAINST ME MY REPROACH:_ Magnify ... - speak proudly (Obadiah 1:12; Ezekiel 35:13). AGAINST ME - emphatically repeated (Psalms 38:16, "Whe

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FIFTH SPEECH In this speech Job repeats his bitter complaints of God's injustice, and man's contemptuous abandonment of one formerly so loved and honoured. He appeals in broken utterances to his...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The friends accused Job so often because they were proud. They wanted to prove that they were right. But Job’s troubles did not prove that they were right....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִם ־אָ֭מְנָם עָלַ֣י תַּגְדִּ֑ילוּ וְ תֹוכִ֥יחוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    To this terrible accusation Job replied first with a rebuke and a complaint. He demanded how long they would vex him, and declared that if he had erred, his sin was his own. If they would continue, le...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Reproaches, which I endure, as if they were a sure proof of your assertion. (Haydock) -- I must therefore refute you. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (3) These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. (4) And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. (5) If indeed ye will mag...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 wor...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach: Ver. 5. _If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me_] Or, Will you indeed magnify yourselves against me? _sc....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Be it that I have erred_, &c. If I have sinned, I myself suffer for my sins, and therefore deserve your pity rather than your reproaches. _If you will magnify yourselves_, &c. Use imperious and conte...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, or, "will ye indeed boast yourselves against me?" AND PLEAD AGAINST ME MY REPROACH. If they were assuming his guilt without further proof, Job consider...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB REPROACHES HIS FRIENDS FOR THEIR SUSPICIONS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How long w...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "Their tactics were clear to Job: they were acting superior to him (Job 12:3; Job 13:2)" _(p. 85)._...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so afflicted; here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemned was capable of excuse. Harsh language from friends, grea...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MAGNIFY YOURSELVES AGAINST ME, i.e. use lofty, and imperious, and contemptuous speeches against me; or seek praise and honour from others, by your conquering or outreasoning of me. MY REPROACH; either...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 19:5 indeed H551 exalt H1431 (H8686) plead H3198 (H8686) disgrace H2781 magnify - Psalms 35:26

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Job 19:1. _Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?_ They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadside. We...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 19:3. _These ten times have ye reproached me._ A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him. Job 1...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then Job answered and said._ COMPLAINTS AND CONFIDENCES I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exasperated him...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Job 19:23. “_O that my words were now written!_” The “words” understood as either— (1) _Those now to be uttered_. So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of his faith...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproaches (verses...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 1:6; Isaiah 4:1; John 9:2; John 9:34; Luke 1:25;...

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