You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
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You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
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These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed that ye deal harshly with me.
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Passages linked to Job 19:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 31:7 Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
- Nehemiah 4:12 When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
- Job 15:4-6 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
- Job 15:11-12 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you? Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
- Job 18:4-21 You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place? “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine. The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out. The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh. A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him. A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path. Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels. His strength will be famished. Calamity will be ready at his side. The members of his body will be devoured. The firstborn of death will devour his members. He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors. There will dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur will be scattered on his habitation. His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above. His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street. He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. He will have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived. Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened. Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”
- Job 19:17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
- Psalms 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
- Daniel 1:20 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 who were in all his realm.
- Genesis 42:7 Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”
- Numbers 14:22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
- Job 4:6-11 Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope? “Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same. By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
- Job 5:3-4 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
- Job 8:4-6 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
- Job 11:3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
- Job 11:14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
- Leviticus 26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, many times, as Neh. 4:12.
That is, many times, as Neh. 4:12.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me:…
Job 19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.
Ver. 3. These ten times have ye reproached me] i.e. Oftentimes. Herein Job endured a great fight of affliction, as the apostle styleth it, Heb 10:32-33; a manifold fight, as the word there signifieth. Cato was two and thirty times accused publicly, and as oft cleared and absolved. Basil was counted and called a heretic, even by those who, as it appeared afterwards, were of the same judgment with him, and whom he honoured as brethren. Dogs in a chase bark sometimes at their best friends, &c.
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Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me] Or, Are you not ashamed that ye harden yourselves against me? or, that ye jeer and jest at my misery? or, that ye make merchandise of me, and take your penny worths out of me? Significat etiam emere, vel cauponari. Beza (agreeable to our translation) paraphraseth it thus, Ye take me up so short, as if ye dealt with a stranger and foreigner, and not with a friend. And so the word is taken, Gen 42:7.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain These ten times, i.e. many times. A certain number…
These ten times, i.e. many times. A certain number for an uncertain. So this phrase is oft used, as Gen 31:7; Num 14:22, &c.
That ye make yourselves strange to me; that you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and are not concerned nor affected with my calamities, and condemn me as if you had never known my former piety and integrity.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And be it indeed that I have erred,.... Which…
And be it indeed that I have erred,.... Which is a concession for argument's sake, but not an acknowledgment that he had erred; though it is possible he might have erred, and it is certain he did in some things, though not in that respect with which he was charged; "humanum est errare", all men are subject to mistakes, good men may err; they may err in judgment, or from the truth in some respect, and be carried away for a while and to some degree with the error the wicked, though they shall be turned from it again; they may err in practice, and wander from the way of God's commandments; and indeed their strayings and aberrations of this sort are so many, that David says, "who can understand his errors?" Psa 19:12; and they may err in words, or make a mistake in speech; but then no man should be made an offender for a word for he must be a perfect man that is free from mistakes of this kind: now Job argues that supposing this to be his case in any of the above instances; yet, says he,
mine error remaineth with myself; I only am chargeable with it, and answerable for it; it is nothing to you, and why should you trouble yourselves about it? it will not be imputed to you, nor will you suffer on account of it; or, admitting I have imbibed an error, I do not publish it abroad; I keep it to myself; it lies and lodges in my own breast, and nobody is the worse for it: or "let it remain", or "lodge with me" (k); Why should my mistakes be published abroad, and all the world be made acquainted with them? or else this expresses his resolution to abide by what his friends called an error; and then the so is, if this is an error which I have asserted, that God afflicts both good and bad men, and that afflictions are no argument of a man's being an hypocrite and a wicked man, I am determined to continue in it; I will not give it up, I will hold it fast; it shall remain with me as a principle never to be departed from; or it may be rather his meaning is, that this notion he had imbibed would remain with him, and was likely to do so, for anything they had said, or could say to the contrary.
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(k) "mecum maneat", Beza; to the same sense Mercerus, Schmidt, Junius and Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Ten - Many times. A certain number for an…
Ten - Many times. A certain number for an uncertain. Strange - That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. These ten times] The exact arithmetical number…
Verse 3. These 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 Clarke's note on "Ge 31:7".
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 in prosperity! Circumstances change men's minds.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain These ten times - Many times; the word “ten”…
These ten times - Many times; the word “ten” being used as we often say, “ten a dozen” or “twenty,” to denote many; see Gen 31:7, “And your father hath changed my wages “ten times.” Lev 26:26, “and when I have broken your staff of bread, “ten women” shall bake your bread, in one oven;” compare Num 14:22; Neh 4:6.
You are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me - Margin, “harden yourselves strange to me.” Margin, “harden yourselves against me.” Gesenius, and after him Noyes, renders this, “Shameless ye stun me.” Wemyss, “Are ye not ashamed to treat me thus cruelly? The word used here (הכר hâkar) occurs no no where else, and hence, it is difficult to determine its meaning. The Vulgate renders it, “oppressing me.” The Septuagint, “and you are not ashamed to press upon me.” - ἐπίκεισθέ υοι epikeisthe moi. Schultens has gone into an extended examination of its meaning, and supposes that the primary idea is that of being “stiff,” or “rigid.” The word in Arabic, he says, means to be “stupid with wonder.” It is applied, he supposes, to those who are “stiff or rigid” with stupor; and then to those who have a stony heart and an iron an iron fore-head - and who can look on the suffering without feeling or compassion. This sense accords well with the connection here. Gesenius, however, supposes that the primary idea is that of beating or pounding; and hence, of stunning by repeated blows. In either case the sense would be substantially the same - that of “stunning.” The idea given by our translators of making themselves “strange” was derived from the supposition that the word might be formed from נכר nâkar - to be strange, foreign; to estrange, alienate, etc. For a more full examination of the word, the reader may consult Schultens, or Rosenmuller “in loco.”
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Ten times; very often. --- Oppress me. Hebrew word…
Ten times; very often. --- Oppress me. Hebrew word occurs no where else, and is variously translated. It may signify, "to dig a pit for me," chap vi. 27., and Psalm vi. 6. Job repeats nearly what he had said before, only with greater vehemence. He admits that Providence treats him in an unusual manner. Yet he still retains an assured hope, and arraigns his adversaries before the divine tribunal. (Calmet) --- Yet he rather hesitates; (ver. 4, 6.) and this species of ignorance is the folly of which he, at last, accuses himself, chap. xlii. 3. It was no real fault, chap. xlii. 8. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain These--prefixed emphatically to numbers (Gen 27:36).
These--prefixed emphatically to numbers (Gen 27:36).
ten--that is, often (Gen 31:7).
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make yourselves strange--rather, "stun me" [GESENIUS]. (See Margin for a different meaning [that is, "harden yourselves against me"]).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3. Ten times — Used for many times. Thus…
3. Ten times — Used for many times. Thus Maimonides: “He who profaneth the name of God in the presence of ten Israelites, behold, he profaneth it in the presence of many.” Or it may stand as the number of human possibility, says Delitzsch, from its being the number of fingers on the two hands of man.
Make yourselves strange to me — Ill-treat me. (Dillmann.) Stun me. (Zockler.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. Job_19:23-27. Hopeless in the present he turns his…
3. Job_19:23-27. Hopeless in the present he turns his eye to the future. He desires that his protest of innocence might find indelible record in the rock, that the generations to come might read it. Yet how small a thing that would be to him, whose chief sorrow lay in the alienation of God from his spirit. He shall have more. He knows that God shall yet appear to vindicate him, and that he shall see Him with his eyes—in peace.
Third, Job_19:28-29. Finally he adds a brief threat to his friends.
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3. Ten times is a round number for often, Gen_31:7; Num_14:22.
make yourselves strange to me] An expression of uncertain meaning, as the word does not occur again, unless, as some suppose, it be found in Isa_3:9. The meaning may be, ye wrong me, the root having some resemblance to an Arabic verb rendered by Lane “to wrong,” also “to be persistent in contention.” Ew., ye are unfeeling towards me.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain These ten times have ye reproached me. (For the…
These ten times have ye reproached me. (For the use of the expression "ten times" for "many times." "frequently." see Gen_31:7, 41 Num_14:22 Neh_4:12 Dan_1:20, etc.) Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me; rather, that ye deal hardly with me (see the Revised Version). The verb used does not occur elsewhere, hut seems to have the meaning of "ill use" or "ill treat" (see Professor Lee"s "Commentary on the Book of Job" p. 328).
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Job continues to speak to his three friends.
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These ten times you have reproached me
The phrase "These ten times" refers to the way that the friends have completely rebuked Job. AT: "You have completely reproached me" or "You have reproached me many times" (See: Idiom)
you are not ashamed that you have treated me harshly
Job is rebuking them for this. This can be written in positive form. AT: "You should be ashamed that you have treated me so harshly"
have treated me harshly
"have despised me" or "have publicly ridiculed me"
have erred
"have sinned by accident" or "mistakenly sinned"
my error remains my own concern
Job implies that his friends are not responsible for continuing to rebuke him since he is the one who made the error. AT: "my error is my own responsibility, so you should not continue to rebuke me" or "my error did not hurt you, so you should not continue to rebuke me" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
my error
"my sin" or "my mistake"
translationWords
reproach
shame
true
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 19:3 The number ten did not represent a specific…
19:3 The number ten did not represent a specific count but an indefinite large number (e.g., Gen 31:7; Lev 26:26; Num 14:22; Dan 1:20).
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