Job 16:7
God, you have worn me out. You have destroyed my whole family.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
In Context
6For me, if I speak it doesn't ease my pain, and if I don't speak the pain is still there.
8You have made me shrivel up, which is a witness against me; my thin body testifies against me.
Cross References
Job 3:17There in the grave the wicked give no more trouble, and those whose strength is gone have their rest.
Job 7:3I've been given months of emptiness and nights of misery.
Job 10:1I hate my life! Let me speak freely about my complaints—I can't keep my bitterness to myself.
Psalms 6:6My groaning has exhausted me. Every night I soak my bed with my crying; I drench my couch with my tears.
Isaiah 50:4The Lord God has given me the ability to teach others, to know how to encourage those who are exhausted with a word. He wakes me up every morning; he helps me listen as a disciple.
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 →