Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 19:3
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Job19:3
3. These--prefixed emphatically to numbers (Ge 27:36).
ten--that is, often (Ge 31:7).
make yourselves strange--rather, "stun me" [Gesenius]. (See Margin for a different meaning [that is, "harden yourselves against me"]).
4.erred--The Hebrew expresses unconscious error. Job was unconscious of wilful sin.
remaineth--literally, "passeth the night." An image from harboring an unpleasant guest for the night. I bear the consequences.
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