Job 19:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

Job 19:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-22)

Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job’s complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them. I. He complains of the tokens of God’s displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How dole…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. strange--His breath by elephantiasis had become so strongly altered and offensive, that his wife turned away as estranged from him (Job 19:13; 17:1). children’s ... of mine own body--literally, “belly.” But “loins” is what we should expect, not “belly” (womb), which applies to the woman. The “mine” forbids it being taken of his wife. Besides their children were dead. In Job 3:10 the same words…