Job 16:9
My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.
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In Context
8But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, my spirit drinks of their indignation, and the terrors of the Lord are soldiers against me.
Job 13:24Why do you conceal your face and consider me to be your enemy?
Job 18:4You, who ruins your own soul in your fury, will the earth be forsaken because of you, and will the cliffs be moved from their place?
Lamentations 3:10DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.
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 →