3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. …
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
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.
Topics
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Job’s friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured. Bildad had twice begun with a How long ( Job 8:2 ; 18:2 ), and therefore Job, being now to answer him particularly, begins with a How long too, Job 19:2. What is not liked is commonly thought long; but Job had more reason to th…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.