Job 16:7
But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.
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In The King James Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
In Context
6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
8But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
Cross References
Job 3:17There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest.
Job 7:3so also have I had empty months and have counted my burdensome nights.
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 6:6For there is no one in death who would be mindful of you. And who will confess to you in Hell?
Isaiah 50:4The Lord has given me a learned tongue, so that I would know how to uphold with a word, one who has weakened. He rises in the morning, he rises to my ear in the morning, so that I may heed him like a teacher.
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 →