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How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
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A Proverb for 'No Breaks'
Commentators explain that the phrase 'till I swallow down my spittle' was a common proverb in the ancient world, similar to our saying 'in the twinkling of an eye' or 'let me catch my breath.' Job is expressing that his suffering is so incessant that he is not given even the briefest moment of respite.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How long will you not depart? - How long is this to continue? The same word occurs in (Job 14:6). The word rendered “depart,”
19th Century
Anglican
Till I swallow down my spittle. —This is doubtless a proverbial expression, like “the twinkling of an eye,” or “while I take a bre…
Baptist
Blow followed blow in quick succession. Pain came fast upon the heels of pain until Job seems to have had no rest from his anguish.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How long wilt thou not depart from me From wrestling and contending with him, and afflicting of him; the Lord was to…
Job reasons with God concerning his dealings with man. But in the midst of this discourse, Job seems to have lifted up his thoughts to God with som…
13th Century
Catholic
After Job has shown that the consolation of Eliphaz, which was based on the promise of earthly happiness, was leading him to despair and the desire…
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