Verse 17

My breath is strange to my wife, though I pleaded for the children's sake of my own body.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 2:9-9 : 9 Then his wife said to him, Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God, and die. 10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
  • Job 17:1 : 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.