Job 19:17
15 My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
16 I call for my servant, but he does not answer, though I implore him with my own mouth.
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
18 Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
19 All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
- KJV
- My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
- WEB
- My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
- ASV
- My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.
- DARBY
- My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.
- BLB
- My breath is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my womb.
- ÅB
- Min ånde er motbydelig for min hustru, og min vonde lukt for min mors sønner.
- OTB
- Min ånde er motbydelig for min kone,
og jeg er avskyelig for min egen familie. - B1930
- Min ånde er motbydelig for min hustru, og min vonde lukt for min mors sønner.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 2:9–10
Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Read in contextJob 17:1
“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
Read in context