Job 19:3

Modern

Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

Traditional

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

Literal

These ten times you have reproached me; are you not ashamed that you have done wrong to me?

Latin

En decies confunditis me, et non erubescitis opprimentes me.

Hebrew

English

Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.

The number ten symbolized a large, non-definite quantity rather than a specific count (for example, Genesis 31:7; Leviticus 26:26; Numbers 14:22; Daniel 1:20).

Genesis 31:7
And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.
Daniel 1:20
In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.
Job 15:4–6
But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
Job 15:11–12
Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
Psalm 69:8
I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
Job 18:4–21
You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Job 19:17
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
Nehemiah 4:12
At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
Genesis 42:7
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
Numbers 14:22
…not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
Job 5:3–4
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
Job 11:3
Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?