Job 19:5 - Exposition

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me . If you have no sense of justice, and are disinclined to pay any heed to my expostulations; if you intend still to insist on magnifying.yourselves against me, and bringing up against me my "reproach;" then let me make appeal to your pity. Consider my whole condition—how I stand with God, who persecutes me and "destroys" me ( Job 19:10 ); how I stand with my relatives and such other friends as I have beside yourselves, who disclaim and forsake me ( Job 19:13-19 ); and how I am conditioned with respect to my body, emaciated and on the verge of death ( Job 19:20 ); and then, if neither your friendship nor your sense of justice will induce you to abstain from persecuting me, abstain at any rate for pity's sake ( Job 19:21 ). And plead against me my reproach . Job's special "reproach" was that God had laid his hand upon him. This was a manifest fact, and could not be denied. His "comforters" concluded from it that he was a monster of wickedness.