Job 19:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

📖 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 And your father hath deceived me, and chand my was ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
• Neh 4:12 : 12 And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.
• Job 15:4-6 : 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
• Job 15:11-12 : 11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
• Job 18:4-9 : 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength. 14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. 17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted. 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
• Job 19:17 : 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
• Ps 69:8 : 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
• Dan 1:20 : 20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
• Job 4:6-9 : 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? 7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
• Job 5:3-4 : 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
• Job 8:4-6 : 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
• Job 11:3 : 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
• Job 11:14 : 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
• Gen 42:7 : 7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself stran unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
• Lev 26:26 : 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
• Num 14:22 : 22 Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;