Job 19:17
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
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- Job 2:9-9 : 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse 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 breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
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13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
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18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
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21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
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