Job Chapter 19 verse 5 Holy Bible
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
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If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
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If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
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If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me. If you have no sense of justice, and are disinclined to pay any heed to my expostulations; if you intend still to insist on magnifying yourselves against me, and bringing up against me my "reproach;" then let me make appeal to your pity. Consider my whole condition - how I stand with God, who persecutes me and "destroys" me (ver. 10); how I stand with my relatives and such other friends as I have beside yourselves, who disclaim and forsake me (vers. 13-19); and how I am conditioned with respect to my body, emaciated and on the verge of death (ver. 20); and then, if neither your friendship nor your sense of justice will induce you to abstain from persecuting me, abstain at any rate for pity's sake (ver. 21). And plead against me my reproach. Job's special "reproach" was that God had laid his hand upon him. This was a manifest fact, and could not be denied. His "comforters" concluded from it that he was a monster of wickedness.
