Job 7:19
New International Version
Will you never look away from me, or let me alone even for an instant?

New Living Translation
Why won’t you leave me alone, at least long enough for me to swallow!

English Standard Version
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?

Berean Standard Bible
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

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

New King James Version
How long? Will You not look away from me, And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?

New American Standard Bible
“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow my spittle?

NASB 1995
“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me, Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

NASB 1977
“Wilt Thou never turn Thy gaze away from me, Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Legacy Standard Bible
Will You never turn Your gaze away from me, Nor let me alone until I swallow my spit?

Amplified Bible
“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me [it plagues me], Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Christian Standard Bible
Will you ever look away from me, or leave me alone long enough to swallow?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Will You ever look away from me, or leave me alone long enough to swallow?

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And how long will you not leave me? Will you not leave me until I swallow my spittle?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why don't you stop looking at me long enough to let me swallow my spit?

Good News Translation
Won't you look away long enough for me to swallow my spit?

International Standard Version
Why won't you look away from me? Why don't you leave me alone so I can swallow my saliva?

JPS Tanakh 1917
How long wilt Thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Literal Standard Version
How long do You not look from me? You do not desist until I swallow my spittle.

Majority Standard Bible
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

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

NET Bible
Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?

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

New Heart English Bible
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Webster's Bible Translation
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

World English Bible
How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Young's Literal Translation
How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
18that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment? 19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle? 20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?…

Cross References
Job 9:18
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Job 10:20
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

Job 14:6
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

Psalm 39:13
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more."


Treasury of Scripture

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

How long.

Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

Psalm 6:3
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

Psalm 13:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? …

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Job 7
1. Job excuses his desire of death.
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(19) Till I swallow down my spittle.--This is doubtless a proverbial expression, like "the twinkling of an eye," or "while I fetch a breath."

Verse 19. - How long wilt thou not depart from me? rather, Wilt thou not look away from me? (see the Revised Version). Job does not go so far as to ask that God should "depart from" him. He knows, doubtless, that that would be the extreme of calamity. But he would have God sometimes turn away his eyes from him, and not always regard him so intently. There is something of the same tone of complaint in the psalmist's utterance., "Thou art about my path, and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways" (Psalm 139:3, Prayer-book Version). Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Even, i.e., for the shortest space of time passible. A proverbial expression.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Will You never
כַּ֭מָּה (kam·māh)
Preposition-k | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

look away
תִשְׁעֶ֣ה (ṯiš·‘eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 8159: To gaze at, about, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed, bewildered

from me,
מִמֶּ֑נִּי (mim·men·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

or
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

let me alone
תַ֝רְפֵּ֗נִי (ṯar·pê·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 7503: Sink, relax

to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

swallow
בִּלְעִ֥י (bil·‘î)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf

my spittle?
רֻקִּֽי׃ (ruq·qî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7536: Spittle


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