Job 16:7
But now he hath made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my family;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
In Context
6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
Job 7:3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 6:6I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
Isaiah 50:4The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.
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 →