Job 19:1-6

[1] Then Job answered and said, [2] How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? [3] These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. [4] And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth [5] If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: [6] Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

What is the context of Job 19:1-6?

What does Job 19:1-6 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Job began this reply to Bildad as Bildad had begun both of his speeches: "How long ...?" ( Job 19:2; cf. Job 8:2; Job 18:2). How long would his friends torment him? The ten times ( Job 19:3) may have been ten actual occurrences, not all of which the writer recorded, or Job may have used ten as a round number meaning often. Job claimed that God had not been just in his case ( Job 19:5-6; cf. Job 8:3). Rather than snaring himself in his own net, as Bildad insinuated ( Job 18:8-10), Job claimed that God had trapped him in His net. God had driven him into a hunter"s net. ^[1]