Job 19:17
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are 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 said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Read in contextJob 17:1
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Read in context