Job 19:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 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 the note on Genesis 31:7 (note).

Ye make yourselves strange to me - When I was in affluence and prosperity, ye were my intimates, and appeared to rejoice in my happiness; but now ye scarcely know me, or ye profess to consider me a wicked man because I am in adversity. Of this you had no suspicion when I was in prosperity! Circumstances change men's minds.

Job 19:3

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