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Job 19:17

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

KJV

Halitum meum exhorruit uxor mea, et orabam filios uteri mei.

Vulgate

καὶ ἱκέτευον τὴν γυναῖκά μου, προσεκαλούμην δὲ κολακεύων υἱοὺς παλλακίδων μου·

LXX

My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

ASV

ר֭וּחִֽ/י זָ֣רָה לְ/אִשְׁתִּ֑/י וְ֝/חַנֹּתִ֗י לִ/בְנֵ֥י בִטְנִֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
זָ֑ר
zr
verb · 76×
י
y
noun · 72×
נִי
ny
verb · 79×
ר֣וּחַ
rvch
noun · 377×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Job 2:9 — 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.
  • Job 19:3 — These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.