Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Parallel translations
- WEB know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- BSB then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
- 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
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- Job 18:8–10For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
- Job 27:2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
- Job 7:20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
- Job 16:11–14God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
- Ps 44:9–14But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
- Ps 66:10–12For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
- Lam 1:12–13Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- Ezek 12:13My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
- Ezek 32:3Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
- Hos 7:12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
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