English Standard Version
Job 19:3
3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.
Context of Job 19:3
1Then Job answered and said: 2"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? 4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. 5If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against 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 and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.
- Leviticus 26:26When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
- Numbers 14:22none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,
- Nehemiah 4:12At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, "You must return to us."
- Daniel 1:20And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.
- Job 4:6Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
- Job 5:3I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
- Job 8:4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
- Job 11:3Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
- Job 15:4But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.
- Job 18:4You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
- Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.
- Genesis 42:7Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. "Where do you come from?" he said. They said, "From the land of Canaan, to buy food."
- Psalms 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, 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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