Job 16:8

My falsehood has become a testimony, 1 And has risen up against me: 1 It has confronted me to my face. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; 1 And thou hast laid hold of me. 1

9In his anger he has cast me down; 1 He has gnashed his teeth upon me: 1 The weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me. 1

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Cross References

Ruth 1:21I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call ye me Naomi, whereas the Lord has humbled me, and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

Job 19:20My flesh is corrupt under my skin, 1 And my bones are held in my teeth. 1

Isaiah 24:16O Lord God of Israel, from the ends of the earth we have heard wonderful things, and there is hope to the godly: but they shall say, Woe to the despisers, that despise the law.

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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