EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 19:3
3You have insulted me many, many times. You should be ashamed to attack me like that.
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 replied. This is what he said: 2‘Please stop speaking to me like that! Your words continue to make me suffer. You have insulted me many, many times. You should be ashamed to attack me like that. 4I might have done things that are wrong. But even if that might be true, those wrong things have not hurt you. 5You think that you are better people than I am. Because I have all these troubles, you say that I must be guilty.
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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 31:7But your father has cheated me many times. He has changed what I receive for my work at least ten times. But God has protected me from him.
- Leviticus 26:26The people will not have any food. A woman will bake one loaf for ten families. They will weigh it to give one part to each family. When a person eats his piece of bread, he will still be hungry.
- Numbers 14:22All these people have seen my glory. They have seen the miracles that I did in Egypt and in the desert. But they have tested me many times now to see if I would punish them. They still do not obey me.
- Nehemiah 4:12The Jews who lived near our enemies warned us many times. They told us that our enemies would attack us wherever we went.
- Daniel 1:20Whenever the king needed help to understand something important, these men showed how wise they were. They knew ten times more than any of the king's other wise men. Those men used magic or they studied the stars to know what would happen in the future. They came from all the different countries that Nebuchadnezzar ruled.
- Job 4:6But you respect God's authority, so you should trust him. You live in an honest way, so you should still hope for better things.
- Job 5:3I have seen fools who seemed to be successful. But suddenly a curse destroyed their homes.
- Job 8:4Your children did things that were wrong. That is why God punished them.
- Job 11:3Your proud words will not cause other people to say nothing. We must make you ashamed when you laugh at us.
- Job 15:4You show that you do not respect God. You turn other people away from him.
- Job 18:4You are so angry that you are hurting yourself. You will never change the way that things happen in the world. Your anger will not cause the earth to shake, or any rocks to move from their places.
- Job 19:17My wife moves away from the smell of my breath. My brothers stay away from me.
- Genesis 42:7As soon as Joseph saw the men, he knew that they were his brothers. But he spoke to them as if they were strangers. He did not speak to them in a kind way. He asked them, ‘Where do you come from?’ They replied, ‘We come from the land of Canaan. We have come here to buy food.’
- Psalms 69:8I have become like a stranger to my brothers. I am like a foreigner to my family.
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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