Translations
Modern
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
Traditional
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
Literal
My breath is strange to my wife, and I am loathsome to the sons of my womb.
Latin
Halitum meum exhorruit uxor mea, et orabam filios uteri mei.
Original
Hebrew
English
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
Notes
my own family: Job might have meant his tribe, his parents, his children, or his siblings.
Events
Glossary
Topics
Afflictions and Adversities: Forsaken by Friends in Instances of Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Friendship: General Scriptures Concerning Women: Job's Wife, in Suggesting to Him That he Curse God and Die