King James Version
Job 19:15 in the King James Version says “They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.” — study this verse from Job chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.”
Job 19:15 · KJV
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body. mine: Heb. my belly
KJV Study — Public Domain
“They that dwell”
H1481properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e., sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place);
“in mine house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“me for a stranger”
H2114to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
“count”
H2803properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e., (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a maliciou
“I am an alien”
H5237strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“in their sight”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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