Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 3. 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 xxxi. 7.
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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so afflicted here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemne was capable of excuse. Harsh language from friends, greatly adds to the weight of afflictions: yet it is best not to lay it to heart, lest we harbour resentment. Rather let us look to Him who endured the contradiction of sinners against himself, and was treated with far mor cruelty than Job was, or we can be. (Job 19:8-22)
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