King James Version
Job 19:6 in the King James Version says “Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.” — study this verse from Job chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.”
Job 19:6 · KJV
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. wrong: or, violence
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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“Know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“me and hath compassed”
H5362to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e., surround or circulate
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