Job 19:17
My breath has become repulsive to my wife,
Would be loathsome even to my own children.
Back from vacation and holiday. It was refreshing to come back from vacation and not be in the middle of life already. Good that I can keep learning new things. Maybe I can retain some of these learnings as well.
‘Breath’ was once ‘odor’ and was once just Job himself. ‘Repulsive’ was also ‘offensive’, ‘strange’, and ‘nauseating’.
‘Would be’ was not in any of my sources, but his kids were dead so… ‘Loathsome’ was also ‘repulsive’, ‘stench anoints’ and ‘intreated’. I had to look up intreated. ‘Children’ was also ‘family’ and ‘brothers’.
Intreat was archaic for entreat. Entreat means to negotiate or intercede. I am guessing the King James guys just got that wrong. Or they used an older meaning lost in time.
When I first read this verse, my first thought is ‘Isn’t it always?’ My assumption is that no matter what he does, his breath is still unacceptable even to his wife who puts up with all his crap. When I first reread this, I thought how interesting it was that Job both acknowledged that his kids were gone and that they would put up with more than his wife did. I won’t remove the would be, but I do like how I added even and didn’t notice.
Ever since I got a second car, I have wanted a third. It never made any sense, but the want was there as soon as I learned about a thing called PDK. I have eventually made peace with not wanting another car just to get my own PDK, but it took about 13 years. But now I want a third car anyway. I actually have a need that is being met with rent cars for the time being, but I think the opportunity to meet the need with a want is not out of bounds.
Most people would just say get rid of one of my current cars (or my wife’s) to get one that will meet the need, but my brain tells me “Heavens no” to getting rid of either of my keep forever cars. I know the Infiniti will eventually need a part that cannot be found, but I don’t want to think about it. I even am considering letting my wife keep her current car and getting a smaller one that meets her wants and my needs. But really I am just desperately looking for a sign from God that ends my worry on this, in a good way. (He did with an Aramada!)
Written 12/1/25, Posted 1/12/06, Job 417/~1070