Job 19:3
1 Then Job answered and said,
2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
- KJV
- These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
- WEB
- You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
- ASV
- These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
- DARBY
- These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me.
- BLB
- These ten times you⁺ have reproached me; are you⁺ not ashamed [that] you⁺ have done wrong to me?
- ÅB
- Det er nå tiende gang dere håner meg og ikke skammer dere ved å krenke meg.
- OTB
- Dere har hånet meg ti ganger;
dere skammer dere ikke over å mishandle meg. - B1930
- Det er nu tiende gang I håner mig og ikke skammer eder ved å krenke mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 31:7
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Read in contextDaniel 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.
Read in contextJob 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?
Read in contextJob 15:11–12
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Read in contextJob 15:4–6
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Read in contextJob 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
Read in contextPsalms 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
Read in contextNehemiah 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.
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