These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
- BSB Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat 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 your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
- Job 19:17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
- Neh 4:12And 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.
- Job 15:11–12Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
- Dan 1:20And 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 18:4–21He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
- Ps 69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
- Job 15:4–6Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
- Num 14:22Because 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 4:6–11Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- Job 5:3–4I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Job 11:14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- Job 11:3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 8:4–6If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
- Gen 42:7And 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.
- Lev 26:26And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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