"My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's {sake} of mine own body. {mine...: Heb. my belly}" — Job 19:17

Job 19:17 · KJV

“My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's {sake} of mine own body. {mine...: Heb. my belly}”

— Job 19:17

I called my servant, and he gave {me} no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. {young...: or, the wicked}

Job 19 — Context

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

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. {mine...: Heb. my belly}

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. {young...: or, the wicked}

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {my...: Heb. the men of my secret}

Cross References

Job 2:9-10

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

Job 17:1

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}