Job 19:3 Meaning and Explanation
“These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job says his friends have shamed him again and again without embarrassment, treating him as a stranger.
What Does Job 19:3 Mean?
Ten times is a round figure meaning over and over; Job is not counting speeches but expressing the relentlessness of their reproach. Worse than the accusation is its hardness: they feel no shame for dealing harshly with a man they once knew and loved, making themselves strange to him.
Estrangement compounds suffering. To be wronged by enemies is bitter; to be wronged by friends is a deeper wound. Job's words expose how easily fear or self-righteousness can cool a once-warm bond. They also prepare the heart to treasure the one Friend who, as Scripture promises, sticks closer than a brother and is never ashamed to be called ours.
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What does Job 19:3 mean?
Job says his friends have shamed him again and again without embarrassment, treating him as a stranger.