You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
Parallel translations
- KJV These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to 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 31:7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.
- Job 19:17My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
- Neh 4:12When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
- Job 15:11–12Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
- Dan 1:20In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.
- Job 18:4–21You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
- Ps 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
- Job 15:4–6Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
- Num 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
- Job 4:6–11Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
- Job 5:3–4I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- Job 11:14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
- Job 11:3Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
- Job 8:4–6If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
- Gen 42:7Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”
- Lev 26:26When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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