Job 16:7
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
In Context
6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to 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 →