Job 7:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Job 7:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Psalms 13:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? …
Job 14:6
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Revelation 6:10
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Psalms 94:3
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Commentary

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

(vv. 17-21)

Job here reasons with God, I. Concerning his dealings with man in general (Job 7:17, 18): What is man, that thou shouldst magnify him? This may be looked upon either, 1. As a passionate reflection upon the proceedings of divine justice; as if the great God did diminish and disparage himself in contending with man. “Great men think it below them to take cognizance of those who are much their inferi…

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

(vv. 19)

19. How long (like a jealous keeper) wilt thou never take thine eyes off (so the Hebrew for “depart from”) me? Nor let me alone for a brief respite (literally, “so long as I take to swallow my spittle”), an Arabic proverb, like our, “till I draw my breath.”