KJV ORIGINAL
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
If you're really going to act superior to me and use my suffering as proof against me:
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Job is challenging his friends who are acting self-righteous and using his suffering to prove he must have done something wrong.
📚 Historical Context
Job's three friends - Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar - had come to comfort him but instead kept insisting that his tremendous suffering must be punishment for secret sins. This verse comes in the middle of Job's response to their harsh accusations, where he's defending his integrity while enduring the loss of his children, health, and wealth.
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