Holy Scripture
Job 19:17
A church father on this verse
“My wife shuddered at my breath. What does the 'wife' of the Lord mean save the Synagogue, subject to Him in the Covenant of the Law with a carnal perception? Now the breath is from the flesh, and the unbelieving people understood the incarnation of the Lord in a carnal manner; in that it took Him for mere man; and so…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17And I besought my wife, And earnestly entreated the sons of my concubines.
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In context
15As for my household, and my maidservants, I was a stranger before them.
16I called my servant, and he hearkened not; And my mouth entreated him.
— Job 19:17 —
18But they rejected me forever; Whenever I rise up, they speak against me.
19They that saw me abhorred me: The very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.