Job 16:7
But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
In Context
8It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
Cross References
Job 3:17There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
Job 7:3So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Job 10:1My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Psalms 6:6\6:5\For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
Isaiah 50:4The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are experienced, so that I may be able to give the word a special sense for the feeble: every morning my ear is open to his teaching, like those who are experienced:
Matthew Henry on Job 16:7-17
Grievances of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the… Read the whole commentary →