Job 16:9
My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
Job 13:24Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
Job 18:4Thou that destroyest thy soul in thy fury, shall the earth be forsaken for thee, and shall rocks be removed out of their place?
Psalms 35:16They were separated, and repented not : they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn : they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Psalms 50:22Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
Lamentations 3:10Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.
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 →