Know then that God has wronged me And has surrounded me with His net.
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.
- 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.
- 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 he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
- Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
- Job 7:20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
- Job 16:11–14God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
- Ps 44:9–14But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.
- Ps 66:10–12For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
- Lam 1:12–13“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- Ezek 12:13I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
- Ezek 32:3Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
- Hos 7:12When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
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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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