Job 19 · Verse 3

Job 19:3

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Job 19:3, King James Version

Job 19:3 in other translations

BSBTen times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
WEBYou have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
ASVThese ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
YLTThese ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me--
DARBYThese ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
BBETen times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
WebsterThese ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

What does Job 19:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
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 the note on Gen 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 in prosperity! Circumstances change men's minds.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 19:1-7

Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so afflicted; here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemned was capable of excuse. Harsh language from friends, greatly adds to the weight of afflictions: yet it is best not to lay it to heart, lest we harbour resentment. Rather let us look to Him who endured the contradiction of sinners against himself, and was treated with far more…

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Job 19:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

זֶ֤הzehthisH2088
עֶ֣שֶׂר'E.sertenH6235
פְּ֭עָמִיםPe.'a.mimtimesH6471
תַּכְלִימ֑וּנִיtakh.li.Mu.niyou have insulted meH3637
לֹֽא\־lo'-notH3808
תֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּte.Vo.shuyou have been ashamedH954
תַּהְכְּרוּ\־tah.ke.ru-you have ill-treatedH1970
לִֽי\׃Li<to> me

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Cross references for Job 19:3

  • Genesis 31:7

    And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

  • Daniel 1:20

    And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

  • Job 18:4-21

    He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. …

  • Job 15:11-12

    Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

  • Job 15:4-6

    Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  • Job 19:17

    My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

  • Psalms 69:8

    I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

  • Nehemiah 4:12

    And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

  • Genesis 42:7

    And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

  • Job 11:14

    If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

  • Numbers 14:22

    Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

  • Job 11:3

    Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
ten times.
Ge 31:7; Le 26:26; Nu 14:22; Ne 4:12; Da 1:20
ye reproached.
4:6-11; 5:3,4; 8:4-6; 11:3,14; 15:4-6,11,12; 18:4-21
make yourselves strange to me. or, harden yourselves againstme.
17; Ge 42:7; Ps 69:8

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Context

  • Job 19:2

    How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

  • Job 19:3

    These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

  • Job 19:4

    And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

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Job 19:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Ya me habéis vituperado diez veces: ¿no os avergonzáis de descomediros delante de mí?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Voilà dix fois que vous m’avez outragé, vous n’avez pas honte de m’étourdir.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Schon zehnmal ist es, daß ihr mich geschmäht habt; ihr schämet euch nicht, mich zu verletzen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
En decies confunditis me, et non erubescitis opprimentes me.