Job 19:17

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 2:9-9 : 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die. 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

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  • Job 19:13-16
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    13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

    14My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.

    15They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.

    16I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth.

  • Job 19:18-21
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    18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

    19All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

    20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

    21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

  • 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • 18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

  • 15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

  • 12Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  • 3(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

  • 27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

  • Ps 38:9-11
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    9Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

    10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

    11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

  • 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

  • Job 31:9-10
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    9If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

    10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

  • 10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • 19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

  • 20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

  • 19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

  • 40Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

  • 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

  • 20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 30:18-19
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    18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

  • 27Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

  • 3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

  • 21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

  • 8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother's children.

  • 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

  • 22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

  • 13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • 6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • 15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

  • 2What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows?

  • 2Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

  • 16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

  • 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • 14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • 1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.