American Standard Version
Job 19:3
3These ten times have ye reproached me:Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with 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, 2How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. 4And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself. 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
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זֶ֤ה עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּ֭עָמִים תַּכְלִימ֑וּנִי לֹֽא־תֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ תַּהְכְּרוּ־לִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 19:3
- Genesis 31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- Leviticus 26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Numbers 14:22because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
- Nehemiah 4:12And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times from all places, Ye must return unto us.
- Daniel 1:20And in every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm.
- Job 4:6Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, Andthe integrity of thy ways thy hope?
- Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Job 8:4If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression;
- Job 11:3Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 15:4Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
- Job 18:4Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
- Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
- Genesis 42:7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
- Psalms 69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother’s children.
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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