Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 19:17
Render, 'My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my (mother's) womb'; owing to his complaint.
Render, 'My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am loathsome to the children of my (mother's) womb'; owing to his complaint.
Verse Job 19:17. _THOUGH I ENTREATED FOR THE CHILDREN'S_ SAKE _OF MINE OWN_ _BODY._] This may imply no more than adjuring her by the tenderest ties, by their affectionate intercourse, and consequently...
MY BREATH IS STRANGE TO MY WIFE - Schultens renders this, “my breath is loathsome to my wife,” and so also Noyes. Wemyss translates it, “my own wife turns aside from my breath.” Dr Good, “my breath is...
CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...
JOB 19. JOB'S ANSWER. Here the gradual progress of Job's soul towards faith reaches its climax (Job 19:25 f.). It is to be remembered that Job's problem is in reality twofold: it has a personal side,...
BREATH. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. STRANGE. offensive. THOUGH I, &C. See rendering below. CHILDREN'S. sons': i.e. had his sons not died....
Once more, if possible an acuter misery he is become intolerable to those most dear to him. _though I intreated_ Perhaps, AND I AM LOATHSOME TO THE CHILDREN OF. The word as known in Heb. means _to be...
The estrangement and abhorrence of men. Job's complaint now is even more touching than before: God not only afflicted him with trouble but removed far from him all human sympathy. And there is someth...
THOUGH I INTREATED FOR THE CHILDREN'S SAKE— The word חנתי _channothi,_ rendered _intreated,_ may signify the place of a man's dwelling. The sense may be rendered, _And my habitation to the children of...
3. And despised by all people, including his kindred (Job 19:13-19) TEXT 19:13-19 13 HE HATH PUT MY BRETHREN FAR FROM ME, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have fa...
_MY BREATH IS STRANGE TO MY WIFE, THOUGH I INTREATED FOR THE CHILDREN'S SAKE OF MINE OWN BODY._ Strange. His breath, by elephantiasis, had become so strongly altered and offensive that his wife turne...
19:17 strange (a-4) Or 'odious.' entreaties (b-10) Or 'my bad odour.'...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
Other people are often not loyal when someone suffers. Job’s family left him alone. Job’s servant did not answer Job. Even Job’s wife advised Job to insult God. She thought that it would be better for...
THOUGH I INTREATED FOR THE CHILDREN’S SAKE OF MINE OWN BODY. — Rather, _and so is my affection or kindness_ (see Psalms 77:10, where the same word occurs) _to the children of my mother’s womb, i.e., m...
ר֭וּחִֽי זָ֣רָה לְ אִשְׁתִּ֑י וְ֝ חַנֹּתִ֗י ל
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...
“I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his...
To this terrible accusation Job replied first with a rebuke and a complaint. He demanded how long they would vex him, and declared that if he had erred, his sin was his own. If they would continue, le...
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine (i) own body. (i) Which were hers and mine....
_Entreated. Protestants add, "for the children's sake of mine own body." Septuagint, "I invited with flattering speeches the sons of my concubines. (18) But they cast me from them for ever. When I ari...
(8) В¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. (9) He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. (10) He hath destroyed me on every side...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
MY BREATH IS STRANGE TO MY WIFE,.... Being corrupt and unsavoury, through some internal disorder; see Job 17:1; so that she could not bear to come nigh him, to do any kind deed for him; but if this wa...
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body. Ver. 17. _My breath is strange to my wife_] The corruption of his inwards (besides the noisomeness of h...
_My breath is strange to my wife_, &c. I am become so loathsome that my wife will not come near me, though I have conjured her to do it, by the dear memory of our children, those common pledges of our...
My breath is strange to my wife, the evil odor of his festering ulcers had caused his wife to turn from him with loathing, THOUGH I INTREATED FOR THE CHILDREN'S SAKE OF MINE OWN BODY, that is, the ste...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How long w...
MINE OWN BODY: _ Heb._ my belly...
"MY BREATH IS OFFENSIVE TO MY WIFE": This is the only reference to Job's wife outside of Job 2:9-10. Evidently as Job tried to find comfort in the arms of his wife, she would draw away from him, due t...
8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall...
TO MY WIFE; who by reason of the stink of my breath and sores denied me her company. FOR THE CHILDREN'S SAKE OF MINE OWN BODY; by these pledges of our mutual and matrimonial tie and affection, the chi...
Job 19:17 breath H7307 offensive H2114 (H8804) wife H802 repulsive H2589 (H8800) children H1121 body H990 b
Job 19:1. _Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?_ They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadside. We...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...
Job 19:3. _These ten times have ye reproached me._ A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him. Job 1...
_Then Job answered and said._ COMPLAINTS AND CONFIDENCES I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exasperated him...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...
NOTES Job 19:23. “_O that my words were now written!_” The “words” understood as either— (1) _Those now to be uttered_. So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of his faith...
EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproaches (verses...
Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger...
Job 17:1; Job 2:10; Job 2:9...
CALVARY FOREGLEAMS IN JOB Job 19:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The story of Calvary is the story of the whole Bible. The Cross is not a message relegated to the Four Gospels and brought out therein merely...
How could Job have children here when they were all killed earlier? PROBLEM: In Job 1:2; Job 1:18 (cf. 8:4) all of Job’s children were killed in a great windstorm. Yet here he speaks of his breath be...