Job 19:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: ”

• Job 19:5 - Albert 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 mysteriou...

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• Job 19:5 - 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 s...

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• Job 19:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Job 19:5 - 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 ( Psal...

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• Job 19:5 - 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...

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• Job 19:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1-29 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectanc...

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• Job 19:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” Job 19:1-29 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 dis...

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• Job 19:5 - 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, l...

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• Job 19:5 - 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 ma...

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• Job 19:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...

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• Job 19:5 - 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? s...

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• Job 19:5 - 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...

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• Job 19:5 - L. 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 lo...

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• Job 19:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Reply of Job to Bildad. B. C. 1520.       1 Then Job answered and said,   2 How long will...

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• Job 19:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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; e...

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• Job 19:5 - 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...

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• Job 19:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Job 19:1-2 . 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 roadsid...

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• Job 19:5 - 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....

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• Job 19:5 - 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 exaspera...

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• Job 19:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 19:1-18 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 reproa...

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• Job 19:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Reproaches his Friends for their Suspicions

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• Job 19:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 1:6 ; Isaiah 4:1 ; John 9:2 ; John 9:34 ; Luke 1:25 ; Luke 13:2-4 ; Micah 7:8 ; Nehemiah 1:3 ; Psalms 35:26 ; Psalms 38:16 ; Psalms 41:11 ; Psalms 55:12 ; Zechariah 12:7 ; Zeph...

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