Bible in Basic English
"My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body."
— Job 19:17, Bible in Basic English
“My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.”
My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.
At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.
My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.
Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.
All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.