Job 19:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 2:9-9 : 9 Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!” 10 But he replied,“You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

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  • Job 19:13-16
    4 verses
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    13Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

    14My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.

    15My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

    16I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth.

  • Job 19:18-21
    4 verses
    78%

    18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

    19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

    20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

    21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

  • 1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • 18He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

  • 15If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.

  • 12Hear my prayer, O LORD! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am a foreign resident with you, a temporary settler, just as all my ancestors were.

  • 3for while my spirit is still in me, and the breath from God is in my nostrils,

  • 27so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,

  • Ps 38:9-11
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    68%

    9O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.

    10My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.

    11Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

  • 15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

  • Job 31:9-10
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    9If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

    10then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.

  • 10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • 19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • 20But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

  • 19Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?

  • 40I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

  • 11Job Remonstrates with God“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

  • 20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 30:18-19
    2 verses
    67%

    18With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

  • 20ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

  • 24For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

  • 27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

  • 3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

  • 21Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.

  • 8My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

  • 12Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?

  • 22I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

  • 13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

  • Ps 102:4-5
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    4My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

    5Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.

  • 6Abandonment by God and Man“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking– how much of it goes away?

  • 15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

  • 11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

  • 2O my son, O son of my womb, O son of my vows,

  • 2Idolatrous Israel Will Be Punished Like a Prostitute Plead earnestly with your mother(for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), so that she might put an end to her adulterous lifestyle, and turn away from her sexually immoral behavior.

  • 16ע(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.

  • 18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • 14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

  • 1An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.