Job 19:6 “then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net ar…”

Job 19:6

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

World English Bible

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

American Standard Version

Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.

Geneva Bible 1599

Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Darby Translation

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.

Young's Literal Translation

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

Bible in Basic English

Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

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Cross references

“God”

Job 7:20 Job 16:11–14 Psalm 44:9–14 Psalm 66:10–12

Job 7:20 · BSB

If 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 16:11–14 · BSB

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Psalm 44:9–14 · BSB

But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

Psalm 66:10–12 · BSB

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

“compassed”

Job 18:8–10 Ezekiel 12:13 Ezekiel 32:3 Hosea 7:12 Lamentations 1:12 Lamentations 1:13

Job 18:8–10 · BSB

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

Ezekiel 12:13 · BSB

But 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.

Ezekiel 32:3 · BSB

This 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.

Hosea 7:12 · BSB

As 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.

Lamentations 1:12 · BSB

Is 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?

Lamentations 1:13 · BSB

He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

Also

Job 27:2

Job 27:2 · BSB

“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

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