My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
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Gill's Exposition
Yea, young children despised me,.... Having related what he met with within doors from those in his own house, the strangers and proselytes in it, his maidens and menservants, and even from his own…
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…
Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon…
Cambridge Bible
Once more, if possible an acuter misery he is become intolerable to those most dear to him.
though I intreated Perhaps, and I am loathsome to the children of. The word as known in Heb. means to be…