Job Chapter 7 verse 19 Holy Bible
How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
read chapter 7 in ASV
How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?
read chapter 7 in BBE
How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
read chapter 7 in DARBY
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
read chapter 7 in KJV
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
read chapter 7 in WBT
How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
read chapter 7 in WEB
How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.
read chapter 7 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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."