Job Chapter 19 verse 17 Holy Bible
My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
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My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
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My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
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My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
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My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body.
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My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
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My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my `mother's' womb.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - My breath is strange to my wife. The breath of a sufferer from elephantiasis has often a fetid odour which is extremely disagreeable. Job's wife, it would seem, held aloof from him on this account, so that he lost the tender offices which a wife is the fittest person to render. Though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. This translation is scarcely tenable, though no doubt it gives to the words used a most touching and pathetic sense. Translate, and I am loathsome to the children of my mother's wench; i.e. to my brothers and sisters (comp. Job 42:11). It would seem that they also avoided Job's presence, or at any rate any near approach to him. Under the circumstances, this is perhaps not surprising; but Job, in his extreme isolation, felt it keenly.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.--Rather, and so is my affection or kindness (see Psalm 77:10, where the same word occurs) to the children of my mother's womb, i.e., my brethren. Others render, I am become offensive to, &c.
