If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
Parallel translations
- WEB If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
- KJV If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
- NKJV If indeed you exalt yourselves against me, And plead my disgrace against me,
- NASB “If indeed you exalt yourselves against me And prove my disgrace to me,
- NLT You think you’re better than I am, using my humiliation as evidence of my sin.
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Quick answer
Job challenges the friends who exalt themselves over him and use his disgrace as an argument against him. He calls out their proud condemnation.
Overview
Job exposes the friends' self-righteous posture, magnifying themselves while pressing his humiliation as proof of guilt. He sees their reasoning as built on his shame rather than on truth. This sets up his crucial point in the next verse: that his calamity comes from God's mysterious hand, not from the simple wickedness they allege.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Ps 35:26May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
- Ps 55:12For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
- Ps 38:16For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
- Luke 13:2–4To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this fate?
- Mic 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
- Neh 1:3And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”
- Luke 1:25“The Lord has done this for me. In these days He has shown me favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
- 1 Sam 1:6Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.
- Zeph 2:10This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
- Isa 4:1In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
- Zech 12:7The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.
- Ps 41:11By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.
- John 9:34They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.
- John 9:2and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
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