Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 19:17

17. My breath is strange to my wife , though I entreated for the Childrens sake of mine own body .

Who by reason of the stink of my breath and sores denied me her company.

By these pledges of our mutual and matrimonial tye and affection, the Children which came out of my Loyns, and were begotten by me upon her body. But divers render the words thus; and I entreated the children of my own body: i. e. Either some of Iob's younger Children, who by reason of their tender years were kept at home with their Father, when their elder Brethren and Sisters were gone abroad to the Feast; or some of his Grand-children by those grown Sons and Daughters; for such also oft come under the name of children. But this sense seems not so proper, partly because according to that Translation here is mention onely of Iob's entreating them, but not a word of their denying his request; which is the onely matter of his present Complaint; and partly because according to the former Translation it is a great and just aggravation of his Wifes unkindness, and exactly answers to the foregoing Verse, where the Servants perverseness is aggravated in the same manner and by part of the same words.

Marginal references: Heb. my [illegible: 1 word]