19:5 If indeed 1 you would exalt yourselves 2 above me
and plead my disgrace against me, 3
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.