Job 19:5

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

1Sa 1:6; Ne 1:3; Ps 35:26; Ps 38:16; Ps 41:11; Ps 55:12; Isa 4:1; Mic 7:8; Zep 2:10; Zec 12:7; Lu 1:25; Lu 13:2-4; Joh 9:2,34

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.