Job 19:3

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

1And Job answered and said, 2How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words? These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me. 4And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and prove against me my reproach,

Job 19:3 word by word

זֶ֤ה עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּ֭עָמִים תַּכְלִימ֑וּנִי לֹֽא־תֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ תַּהְכְּרוּ־לִֽי׃Read the interlinear

• tenעֶשֶׂר‛eώer ‛ăώârâh · tenH6235
• timesפַּ֫עַםpa‛am pa‛ămâh · beatH6471
• ashamedבּוֹשׁbûsh · be ashamedH954

Cross-references for Job 19:3

• Genesis 31:7And your father has mocked me, and has changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
• Leviticus 26:26When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
• Numbers 14:22for all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and 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 and told us so ten times, from all the places whence they returned to us,
• Daniel 1:20And in all matters of judicious wisdom, as to which the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the scribes [and] magicians that were in all his realm.
• Job 4:6Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?
• Job 5:3I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
• Job 8:4If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.
• Job 11:3Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
• Job 15:4Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
• Job 18:4Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?
• Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
• Genesis 42:7And Joseph saw his brethren, and knew them; but he made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them, and said to 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 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

Topics related to Job 19:3

• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Acquaintance
• Fence
• Mouth
• Net
• Hard; Hardiness; Harddiness; Hardly

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