then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Parallel translations
- WEB know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- KJV Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- NKJV Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
- NASB Know then that God has wronged me And has surrounded me with His net.
- NLT But it is God who has wronged me, capturing me in his net.
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Quick answer
Job insists it is God who has wronged him and caught him in his net. He attributes his suffering directly to God, though he maintains his innocence.
Overview
Job boldly states that God has 'subverted' him and ensnared him, language of being unjustly trapped, yet he does not curse God. Unlike his friends, Job wrestles honestly with the painful truth that his affliction flows from God's sovereign hand. The reader knows God permits this for purposes beyond Job's sight, a tension ultimately answered at the cross, where the innocent Christ was 'delivered up' by God's plan for our redemption (Acts 2:23).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Job 18:8–10For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
- Job 16:11–14God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
- Ps 44:9–14But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
- Ps 66:10–12For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
- Lam 1:12–13Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
- Ezek 12:13But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.
- Ezek 32:3This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.
- Hos 7:12As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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