Job 19:6

Job 19:6

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4 And if indeed I have erred,
My error remains with me.

5 If indeed you ^aexalt yourselves against me,
And plead my disgrace against me,

6 Know then that ^aGod has wronged me,
And has surrounded me with His net.

7 “If I cry out concerning¹ wrong, I am not heard.
If I cry aloud, there is no justice.

8 ^aHe has¹ fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass;
And He has set darkness in my paths.

9 ^aHe has stripped me of my glory,
And taken the crown from my head.

10 He breaks me down on every side,
And I am gone;
My ^ahope He has uprooted like a tree.

11 He has also kindled His wrath against me,
And ^aHe counts me as one of His enemies.

12 His troops come together
And build up their road against me;
They encamp all around my tent.

13 “He^a has removed my brothers far from me,
And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Know now that God - Understand the case; and in order that they might, he goes into an extended description of the calamities which God had brought upon him. He wished them to be "fully" apprised of all that he had suffered at the hand of God.

Hath overthrown me - The word used here ( ‛âvath ) means to bend, to make crooked or curved; then to distort, prevert: them to overturn, to destroy; Isaiah 24:1; Lamentations 3:9. The meaning here is, that he had been in a state of prosperity, but that God had completely "reversed" everything.

And hath compassed me with his net - Has sprung his net upon me as a hunter does, and I am caught. Perhaps there may be an allusion here to what Bildad said in Job 18:8 ff, that the wicked would be taken in his own snares. Instead of that, Job says that "God" had sprung the snare upon him - for reasons which he could not understand, but in such a manner as should move the compassion of his friends.

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Job 19:6

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