And they said to me, “The survivors there in the province who escaped exile are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”
Job 19:5 - Revised Standard Version If indeed you magnify yourselves against me, and make my humiliation an argument against me, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach and humiliation, American Standard Version (1901) If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach; Common English Bible If you look down on me and use my disgrace to criticize me, Catholic Public Domain Version But you have risen up against me, and you accuse me to my disgrace. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But you have set yourselves up against me, and reprove me with my reproaches. |
And they said to me, “The survivors there in the province who escaped exile are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”
And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!
For I pray, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”
By this I know that thou art pleased with me, in that my enemy has not triumphed over me.
It is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.
And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”
Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they scoffed and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
“And the Lord will give victory to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over that of Judah.
“Thus the Lord has done to me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.”
And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
And her rival used to provoke her sorely, to irritate her, because the Lord had closed her womb.