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You have reproached me ten times. You aren`t ashamed that you attack me.
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"Ten Times" Means "Many Times"
Commentators clarify that Job's phrase "ten times" is not a literal count. It's a common biblical idiom for "repeatedly" or "many times," also seen in Genesis 31:7 and Numbers 14:22. The point is the relentless and repetitive nature of his friends' accusations, not a specific number.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These ten times — This means many times. The word “ten” is used as we often say, “ten a dozen” or “twenty,” to denote many. See Genesis 31:7…
19th Century
Baptist
He means that they had reproached him several times over, and hints that they ought to have been ashamed to act so strangely, so coldly, so unkindl…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
These ten times have you reproached me Referring not to ten sections or paragraphs, in which they had done it, as Ja…
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Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man because he was so afflicted; here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemned was capa…
13th Century
Catholic
In the previous discourse, it seems Bildad intended two things. First, he intended to refute Job for his stupidity, pride, and anger ([Reference Jo…
