Job 7:19

What does Job 7:19 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 7:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Context

v.18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?

v.19This passage

v.20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 9:18

    He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

  • Psalms 94:3

    Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

  • Job 14:6

    Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

  • Psalms 6:3

    My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?

  • Psalms 13:1

    How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

  • Revelation 6:10

    and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

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