John Gill Commentary Job 19:6

"Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net." — Job 19:6 (ASV)

Know now that God has overthrown me
He would have them take notice that all his afflictions were from the hand of God; and therefore should take care to what they imputed any acts of his, whose ways are unsearchable, and the reasons of them not to be found out; and therefore, if a wrong construction should be put upon them, which may be easily done by weak sighted men, it must be displeasing to him. Job had all along from the first ascribed his afflictions to God, and he still continued to do so; he saw his hand in them all; whoever were the instruments, it was God that has overthrown him, or cast him down from an high to a very low estate; that has taken away his substance, his children, and his wealth:

or "has perverted me" ^F12 ; not that God had made him perverse, or was the cause or occasion of any perverseness in him, either in his words or in his actions, or had perverted his cause, and the judgment of it; Job could readily answer to those questions of Bildad, "does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?" and say, no, he does not; but he is to be understood in the same sense as the church is, when she says, see (Lamentations 3:9) ; "he has made my path crooked"; where the same word is used as here; and both she and Job mean that God had brought them into cross, crooked, and afflictive dispensations:

and has compassed me with his net ;
and which also designs affliction, which is God's net, which he has made, ordained, and uses; which he lays for his people, and takes them in, and draws them to himself, and prevents them committing sin, and causes to issue in their good; see (Lamentations 1:13) (Ezekiel 12:13) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F12: (yntwe) "pervertit me", Montanus, Mercerus; so Vatablus, Drusius, Schultens.