Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
- KJV These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
- NKJV These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me.
- NASB “These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me.
- NLT You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly.
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Quick answer
Job says they have reproached him ten times without shame, attacking him relentlessly. 'Ten times' means repeatedly and fully.
Overview
Job charges his friends with shameless, repeated assault, 'ten' being a round number for completeness. He is stunned that those meant to help feel no embarrassment at wronging him. The verse warns against the hardness that lets us pile accusation on the afflicted, contrasting with Christ, who does not break the bruised reed (Isaiah 42:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Gen 31:7And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
- Job 19:17My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
- Neh 4:12At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
- Job 15:11–12Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
- Dan 1:20In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.
- Job 18:4–21You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
- Ps 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
- Job 15:4–6But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
- Num 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
- Job 4:6–11Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
- Job 5:3–4I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
- Job 11:14if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
- Job 11:3Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- Job 8:4–6When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
- Gen 42:7And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
- Lev 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
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