Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 7:19

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

How long will it be ere thou withdraw thy afflicting hand from me? e i. e. for a little time; or that I may have a breathing time: A proverbial expression, like that Spanish Proverb, I [illegible: 1 word] not time or liberty to spit out my spittle. Or this expression may have respect to Iob's distempered and calamitous condition wherewith he was so overwhelmed, that he either had not strength, or could not take heed to spit out his spittle as he should have done, but swallowed it down, as sick and melancholy persons often do.