Job 16:8
And You loathe me, || For it has been a witness, || And my failure rises up against me, || It testifies in my face.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Only, now, it has wearied me; You have desolated all my company,
Cross References
Ruth 1:21I went out full, and YHWH has brought me back empty, why do you call me Naomi, and YHWH has testified against me, and the Almighty has done evil to me?”
Job 19:20To my skin and to my flesh || My bone has cleaved, || And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
Psalms 109:24My knees have been feeble from fasting, || And my flesh has failed of fatness.
Isaiah 24:16From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, || The desire of the righteous. And I say, “Leanness [is] to me, || Leanness [is] to me, woe [is] to me.” Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, || Indeed, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.
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 →