If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Parallel translations
- WEB If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
- BSB If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,
- 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
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- Ps 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
- Ps 55:12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
- Ps 38:16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
- Luke 13:2–4And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
- Mic 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
- Neh 1:3And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
- Luke 1:25Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
- 1 Sam 1:6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
- Zeph 2:10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
- Isa 4:1And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
- Zech 12:7The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
- Ps 41:11By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
- John 9:34They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
- John 9:2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
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