Job 19:17

"I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth."

Key Reflection

In Job 19:17, this verse illustrates Job's profound despair and isolation, highlighting how even his closest companions failed to provide the comfort or support he desperately needed. It underscores the depth of his suffering, where not just strangers but those who should have been nearest to him were unable to respond meaningfully to his cries for help.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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 scattered away by my wife.” The literal meaning is, “my breath is “strange” (זרהzârâh) to my wife;” and the idea is, that there had been such a change in him from his disease, that his breath was not that which she had been accustomed to breathe without offence, and that she now turned away from it as if it were the breath of a stranger.

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