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Job 19:17

King James Version (KJV)

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Job 19:17

Verse 17 of 29

Scripture focus

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

Job 19:17 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Job 19:17

Theological / Devotional

My breath is strange. Probably offensive because of his disease.

My wife. Throughout the book but one wife of Job is mentioned — a noteworthy fact, inasmuch as he most surely lived in an age when polygamy was common.

Mine own body. Literally, “my womb,” that is, the womb of his mother (see ch. 3:10). By children Job is evidently referring to his brothers and sisters.

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