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Job 19:17

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My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

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  1. Job 19:15

    They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

  2. Job 19:16

    I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

  3. Job 19:18

    Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

  4. Job 19:19

    All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.