Job 19:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

Job 19:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 31:7
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
Psalms 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Job 15:4-6
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. …
Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
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.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom Persecution Suffering

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 think…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

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…