Job 19:18 · KJV
“Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. {young...: or, the wicked}”
— Job 19:18
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's {sake} of mine own body. {mine...: Heb. my belly}
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {my...: Heb. the men of my secret}
Job 19 — Context
I called my servant, and he gave {me} no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
17My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's {sake} of mine own body. {mine...: Heb. my belly}
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. {young...: or, the wicked}
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {my...: Heb. the men of my secret}
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}
Cross References
2 Kings 2:23
And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
Job 30:1
But now {they that are} younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}
Job 30:12
Upon {my} right {hand} rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Isaiah 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.