◄ Job 7:19 ►
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Good News Translation
Won't you look away long enough for me to swallow my spit?

New Revised Standard Version
Will you not look away from me for a while, let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Contemporary English Version
Won't you look away just long enough for me to swallow?

New American Bible
How long before you look away from me, and let me alone till I swallow my spit?

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

How long.

Job 9:18 He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

Psalm 6:3 And my soul is troubled exceedingly: but thou, O Lord, how long?

Psalm 13:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me? . . .

Psalm 94:3 How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
…18Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly. 19How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?20I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?…
Cross References
Job 9:18
He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

Job 10:20
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Job 14:6
Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.

Psalm 39:13
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Job 7:18
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