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Job 7:19

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

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כַּ֭מָּהkamahas howמָהpreposition, particle, interrogative — “as how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.לֹאlono , -r,לֹאparticle, negative — “no , -r,”H3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles[idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as trul…תִשְׁעֶ֣הtishehbe dimשָׁעָהverb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular — “be dim”, an unfinished actionH8159to gaze at or about (properly, for help); by implication, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed (as looking around in amazement) or bewildereddepart, be dim, be dismayed, look (away), regard, have respect, spare, turn.מִמֶּ֑נִּיmimenifromמִןpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “from”H4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many sensesabove, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.לֹֽאlono , -r,לֹאparticle, negative — “no , -r,”H3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles[idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as trul…תַ֝רְפֵּ֗נִיtarpeniabateרָפָהverb, hiphil, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “abate”, an unfinished actionH7503to slacken (in many applications, literal or figurative)abate, cease, consume, draw (toward evening), fail, (be) faint, be (wax) feeble, forsake, idle, leave, let alone (go, down), (be) slack, stay, be still, be slothful, (be) weak(-en). See H7495 (רָפָא).עַדadevenעַדpreposition — “even”H5704as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-) to, [phrase] how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, ([phrase] as) yet.בִּלְעִ֥יbilidestroyבָּלַעverb, qal, infinitive construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “destroy”, the to-form of the verbH1104to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroycover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).רֻקִּֽיruqispitרֹקnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “spit”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH7536spittlespit(-ting, -tle).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

How long wilt Thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

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American Standard Version (1901)

How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Young’s Literal Translation

How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

World English Bible

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Darby Translation

How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Douay-Rheims

How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

How long wilt Thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

How long dost thou not let me alone, nor let me go, until I shall swallow down my spittle?

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἕως τίνος οὐκ ἐᾷς με, οὐδὲ προΐῃ με, ἕως ἂν καταπίω τὸν πτύελόν μου;