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Job 19:3
3These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me].
Job 19:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
- New International Version (NIV)Ten times now you have reproached me; shamelessly you attack me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?
- New King James Version (NKJV)These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
Context of Job 19:3
1Then Job answered and said, 2“How long will you torment and exasperate me And crush me with words? These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me]. 4And if it were true that I have erred, My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it]. 5If indeed you [braggarts] vaunt and magnify yourselves over me And prove my disgrace (humiliation) to me,
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זֶ֤ה עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּ֭עָמִים תַּכְלִימ֑וּנִי לֹֽא־תֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ תַּהְכְּרוּ־לִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:3
- Genesis 31:7Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me.
- Leviticus 26:26When I break your staff of bread [that is, cut off your supply of food], ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will ration your bread; and you will eat and not be satisfied.
- Numbers 14:22Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
- Nehemiah 4:12When the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times (repeatedly), “From every place you turn, they will come up against us.”
- Daniel 1:20In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the [learned] magicians and enchanters (Magi) in his whole realm.
- Job 4:6Is not your fear of God your confidence, And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?
- Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root [and outwardly prospering], But I cursed his dwelling immediately [for his destruction was certain].
- Job 8:4If your children have sinned against Him, Then He has handed them over to the power of their transgression and punished them.
- Job 11:3Should your boasts and babble silence men? And shall you scoff and no one put you to shame?
- Job 15:4Indeed, you are doing away with fear, And you are diminishing meditation before God.
- Job 18:4You who tear yourself apart in anger, Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake, Or the rock to be moved out of its place?
- Job 19:17My breath is repulsive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
- Genesis 42:7When Joseph saw his brothers he recognized them, but [hiding his identity] he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. He said to them, “Where have you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
- Psalms 69:8I have become estranged from my brothers And an alien to my mother’s sons.
Commentaries on Job 19:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3These ten times - The exact arithmetical number is not to be regarded; ten times being put for many times, as we have already seen. See particularly the note on Genesis 31:7; (note). Ye make yourselves strange to me - When I was in affluence and prosperity, ye were my intimates, and appeared to rejoice in my happiness; but now ye scarcely know me, or ye profess to consider me a wicked man because I am in adversity. Of this you had no suspicion when I was…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3These ten times - Many times; the word “ten” being used as we often say, “ten a dozen” or “twenty,” to denote many; see Genesis 31:7, “And your father hath changed my wages “ten times.” Leviticus 26:26, “and when I have broken your staff of bread, “ten women” shall bake your bread, in one oven;” compare Numbers 14:22; Nehemiah 4:6. You are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me - Margin, “harden yourselves strange to me.” Margin, “harden…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The number ten symbolized a large, non-definite quantity rather than a specific count (for example, Genesis 31:7; Leviticus 26:26; Numbers 14:22; Daniel 1:20).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. These--prefixed emphatically to numbers (Ge 27:36). ten--that is, often (Ge 31:7). make yourselves strange--rather, "stun me" [Gesenius]. (See Margin for a different meaning [that is, "harden yourselves against me"]). 4.erred--The Hebrew expresses unconscious error. Job was unconscious of wilful sin. remaineth--literally, "passeth the night." An image from harboring an unpleasant guest for the night. I bear the consequences.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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