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Job 19:17

NETBible	My breath is repulsive¹ to my wife; I am loathsome² to my brothers.³
NIV © biblegateway Job 19:17	My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own brothers.
NASB © biblegateway Job 19:17	"My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am loathsome to my own brothers.
NLT © biblegateway Job 19:17	My breath is repulsive to my wife. I am loathsome to my own family.
MSG © biblegateway Job 19:17	My wife can't stand to be around me anymore. I'm repulsive to my family.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 19:17	My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother’s body.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 19:17	My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 19:17	My breath is offensive to my wife, And I am repulsive to the children of my own body.
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KJV	My breath <07307> is strange <02114> (8804) to my wife <0802>_, though I intreated <02589> (8800) for the children's <01121> [sake] of mine own body <0990>_. {mine...: Heb. my belly}
NASB © biblegateway Job 19:17	"My breath <07307> is offensive <02114> to my wife <0802> , And I am loathsome <02603> to my own brothers <01121> <990 >.
LXXM	kai <2532> CONJ iketeuon {V-IAI-1S} thn <3588> T-ASF gunaika <1135> N-ASF mou <1473> P-GS prosekaloumhn {V-IMI-1S} de <1161> PRT kolakeuwn {V-PAPNS} uiouv <5207> N-APM pallakidwn {N-GPF} mou <1473> P-GS
NET [draft] ITL	My breath <07307> is repulsive <02114> to my wife <0802> ; I am loathsome <02603> to my brothers <0990> <01121> .
HEBREW	ynjb <0990> ynbl <01121> ytnxw <02603> ytsal <0802> hrz <02114> yxwr (19:17) <07307>

NETBible

My breath is repulsive¹ to my wife; I am loathsome² to my brothers.³

NET Notes

¹tn The Hebrew appears to have “my breath is strange to my wife.” This would be the meaning if the verb was from זוּר (zur, “to turn aside; to be a stranger”). But it should be connected to זִיר (zir), cognate to Assyrian zaru, “to feel repugnance toward.” Here it is used in the intransitive sense, “to be repulsive.” L. A. Snijders, following Driver, doubts the existence of this second root, and retains “strange” (“The Meaning of zar in the Old Testament,” OTS 10 [1964]: 1-154).

²tn The normal meaning here would be based on the root חָנַן (khanan, “to be gracious”). And so we have versions reading “although I entreated” or “my supplication.” But it seems more likely it is to be connected to another root meaning “to be offensive; to be loathsome.” For the discussion of the connection to the Arabic, see E. Dhorme, Job, 278.

³tn The text has “the sons of my belly [= body].” This would normally mean “my sons.” But they are all dead. And there is no suggestion that Job had other sons. The word “my belly” will have to be understood as “my womb,” i.e., the womb I came from. Instead of “brothers,” the sense could be “siblings” (both brothers and sisters; G. R. Driver and G. B. Gray, Job [ICC], 2:168).