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Job 19:15

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19:15My guests37 and my servant girls

consider38 me a stranger;

I am a foreigner39 in their eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. 37 The Hebrew גָּרֵי בֵיתִי (gare beti, “the guests of my house”) refers to those who sojourned in my house—not residents, but guests.
  2. 38 The form of the verb is a feminine plural, which would seem to lend support to the proposed change of the lines (see last note to v. 14). But the form may be feminine primarily because of the immediate reference. On the other side, the suffix of “their eyes” is a masculine plural. So the evidence lies on both sides.
  3. 39 This word נָכְרִי (nokhri) is the person from another race, from a strange land, the foreigner. The previous word, גֵּר (ger), is a more general word for someone who is staying in the land but is not a citizen, a sojourner.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;

I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;

they look on me as on a stranger.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger;

I am a foreigner in their sight.

NLTNew Living Translation

My servants and maids consider me a stranger.

I am like a foreigner to them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger;

I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

KJV 1900King James Version

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids,

Count me for a stranger:

I am an alien in their sight.