“Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.”
"Know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me." Job acknowledges that God, not the friends, is the true agent of his suffering. God has wronged him and enclosed him in a net. This verse clarifies that for all their confident accusation, the friends are secondary to God's primary assault.
Church Fathers on Job 19:6
Know now at least that God hath afflicted me with no just judgment. O, how hard does the voice of the righteous man sound, suffering under the infliction of the rod! Which same, however, not pride, but grief gave vent to! Now he is not righteous, who gives up righteousness under sorrow; and blessed Job, because he had a meek spirit, did not sin even by a hard word. For, if we say that he did err by this voice, we make out that the devil accomplished what he purposed, when he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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