Text -- Job 19:5 (NET)

19:5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 19:5

¹ tn The introductory particles repeat אָמְנָם (’amnam, “indeed”) but now with אִם (’im, “if”). It could be interpreted to mean “is it not true,” or as here in another conditional clause.

² tn The verb is the Hiphil of גָּדַל (gadal); it can mean “to make great” or as an internal causative “to make oneself great” or “to assume a lofty attitude, to be insolent.” There is no reason to assume another root here with the meaning of “quarrel” (as Gordis does).

³ sn Job’s friends have been using his shame, his humiliation in all his sufferings, as proof against him in their case.