Job 19:17

Verse 17. Entreated. Prot. add, “for the children’s sake of mine own body.” Septuagint “I invited with flattering speeches the sons of my concubines. (18) But they cast me from them for ever. When I arise, they speak against me.” Bible.—Interpreters generally suppose that Job speaks of the children by his inferior wives: though he might have some at home by the first wife, who were not old enough to be invited to the feast, with those who were destroyed. Calmet.