Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 19:3
Ten — Many times. A certain number for an uncertain. Strange — That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity.
Ten — Many times. A certain number for an uncertain. Strange — That you carry yourselves like strangers to me, and condemn me as if you had never known my integrity.
Verse Job 19:3. _THESE TEN TIMES_] The exact arithmetical number is not to be regarded; _ten times_ being put for many times, as we have already seen. See particularly _Clarke's note on "_Genesis 31:7...
THESE TEN TIMES - Many times; the word “ten” being used as we often say, “ten a dozen” or “twenty,” to denote many; see Genesis 31:7, “And your father hath changed my wages “ten times.” Leviticus 26:2...
CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...
JOB 19. JOB'S ANSWER. Here the gradual progress of Job's soul towards faith reaches its climax (Job 19:25 f.). It is to be remembered that Job's problem is in reality twofold: it has a personal side,...
MAKE YOURSELVES STRANGE TO ME: or, are insolent to me....
Job 19:23. Hopeless in the present he turns his eye to the future. He desires that his protest of innocence might find indelible record in the rock, that the generations to come might read it. Yet how...
Job, forsaken of God and men, and without hope in this life, rises to the assurance that God will yet appear to vindicate him, and that his eyes shall see him on his side in joy 2 5. Job expresses hi...
YE ARE NOT ASHAMED— _Are ye not ashamed to be so very obstinate against me?_ Heath....
D. HOPE IN TIME OF ABANDONMENTVINDICATED BY HIS VINDICATOR (_GO-'EL)_ (Job 19:1-29) 1. He condemns the friends for shameless abuse. (Job 19:1-4) TEXT 19:1-4 1 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, _2_ How...
_THESE TEN TIMES HAVE YE REPROACHED ME: YE ARE NOT ASHAMED THAT YE MAKE YOURSELVES STRANGE TO ME._ These - prefixed to numbers emphatically (Genesis 27:36). TEN - i:e., often (Genesis 31:7). MAKE YO...
19:3 me. (b-14) Or 'to stun me;' others, 'wrong me.'...
TEN TIMES] i.e. continually: cp. Genesis 31:7; Numbers 14:22....
JOB'S FIFTH SPEECH In this speech Job repeats his bitter complaints of God's injustice, and man's contemptuous abandonment of one formerly so loved and honoured. He appeals in broken utterances to his...
The friends upset Job because their speeches were not correct. The friends suggested that Job was a wicked man. But Job was a good, honest man (Job 1:1)....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
זֶ֤ה עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּ֭עָמִים תַּכְלִימ֑וּנִי לֹֽא ־תֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ...
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...
“I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his...
To this terrible accusation Job replied first with a rebuke and a complaint. He demanded how long they would vex him, and declared that if he had erred, his sin was his own. If they would continue, le...
These (a) ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me. (a) That is, many times, as in (Nehemiah 4:12)....
Ten times; very often. --- Oppress me. Hebrew word occurs no where else, and is variously translated. It may signify, "to dig a pit for me," chap vi. 27., and Psalm vi. 6. Job repeats nearly what he h...
(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 mag...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THESE TEN TIMES HAVE YE REPROACHED ME,.... Referring not to ten sections or paragraphs, in which they had done it, as Jarchi; or to the five speeches his friends, in which their reproaches were double...
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me. Ver. 3. _These ten times have ye reproached me_] _i.e._ Oftentimes. Herein Job endured a great fight...
_And break me in pieces with words_ With mere empty words, void of sense or argument; with your impertinent and unedifying discourses and bitter reproaches. _These ten times have ye reproached me _ Th...
These ten times, that is, very often, again and again, HAVE YE REPROACHED ME, in attacking his innocence; YE ARE NOT ASHAMED THAT YE MAKE YOURSELVES STRANGE TO ME, stunning him without shame, trying t...
JOB REPROACHES HIS FRIENDS FOR THEIR SUSPICIONS...
JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How long w...
MAKE YOURSELVES STRANGE TO ME: Or, harden yourselves against me...
"THESE TEN TIMES": "Ten times" is an idiom meaning "often", they had repeatedly insulted him and they were not ashamed....
1-7 Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so afflicted; here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemned was capable of excuse. Harsh language from friends, grea...
THESE TEN TIMES, i.e. many times. A certain number for an uncertain. So this phrase is oft used, as GENESIS 31:7 NUMBERS 14:22, &c. THAT YE MAKE YOURSELVES STRANGE TO ME; that you carry yourselves lik...
Job 19:3 ten H6235 times H6471 reproached H3637 (H8686) ashamed H954 (H8799) wronged H1970 (H8686) ten times
Job 19:1. _Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?_ They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadside. We...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...
Job 19:3. _These ten times have ye reproached me._ A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him. Job 1...
_Then Job answered and said._ COMPLAINTS AND CONFIDENCES I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exasperated him...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:3 TEN TIMES indicates completion, not 10 literal times (compare Genesis 31:7, Gen
NOTES Job 19:23. “_O that my words were now written!_” The “words” understood as either— (1) _Those now to be uttered_. So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of his faith...
EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproaches (verses...
Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger...
Daniel 1:20; Genesis 31:7; Genesis 42:7; Job 11:14; Job 11:3;...