Job 16:8

But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.

9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.

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Cross References

Ruth 1:21I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then do you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled and the Almighty hath afflicted?

Job 19:20The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Psalms 109:24My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.

Isaiah 24:16From the ends of the earth we have heard praises, the glory of the just one. And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.

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 →

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