Job 19:3
Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
In Context
2How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
4And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.
Cross References
Genesis 31:7But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.
Leviticus 26:26When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
Nehemiah 4:12And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.
Job 5:3I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.
Job 11:3Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
Job 15:4Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:2-8
The Reply of Job to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not… Read the whole commentary →