Job 19:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫זֶ֤ה עֶ֣שֶׂר פְּ֭עָמִים תַּכְלִימ֑וּנִי לֹֽא־תֵ֝בֹ֗שׁוּ תַּהְכְּרוּ־לִֽי׃‬

Transliteration

zeh ʿeśer pəʿāmîm taklîmūnî lō-tēbōšū tahkərū-lî

Grammar Details

• *zeh*: demonstrative pronoun - this
• *ʿeśer*: numeral - ten
• *pəʿāmîm*: noun common feminine plural - times
• *taklîmūnî*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - you insult/shame me
• *lō-tēbōšū*: negative particle + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you are not ashamed
• *tahkərū-lî*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + preposition + 1st person singular suffix - you mistreat/wrong to me

Word Meanings

• *kālam*: to shame/humiliate/insult
• *būš*: to be ashamed/disappointed/confused
• *nākar*: to treat as foreign/strange/act wrongly toward

Referenced Verses

• Gen 31:7 : 7 But 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.
• Neh 4:12 : 12 And 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 15:4-6 : 4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry. 5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. 6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
• Job 15:11-12 : 11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you? 12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;
• Job 18:4-9 : 4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place? 5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining. 6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out. 7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him. 8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords. 9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip. 10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way. 11 He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step. 12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep. 13 His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases. 14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears. 15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house. 16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off. 17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name. 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world. 19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name. 20 At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear. 21 Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.
• Job 19:17 : 17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
• Ps 69:8 : 8 I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.
• Dan 1:20 : 20 And in any business needing wisdom and good sense, about which the king put questions to them, he saw that they were ten times better than all the wonder-workers and users of secret arts in all his kingdom.
• Job 4:6-9 : 6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope? 7 Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off? 8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves. 9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off. 10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken. 11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
• Job 5:3-4 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house. 4 Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
• Job 8:4-6 : 4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand. 5 If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; 6 If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.
• Job 11:3 : 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
• Job 11:14 : 14 If you put far away the evil of your hands, and let no wrongdoing have a place in your tent;
• Gen 42:7 : 7 And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.
• Lev 26:26 : 26 When 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.
• Num 14:22 : 22 Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;