Job 16:7

But now, God, you have made me weary; 1 you have made all my family desolate. 1

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In The King James Version

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

In Context

6If I speak, my grief is not lessened; 1 if I keep from speaking, how am I helped? 1

8You have made me dry up, which itself is a witness against me; 1 the leanness of my body rises up against me, 1 and it testifies against my face. 1

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Cross References

Job 3:17There the wicked cease from trouble; 1 there the weary are at rest. 1

Job 7:3so I have been made to endure months of misery; 1 I have been given trouble-filled nights. 1

Job 10:1I am weary of my life; 1 I will give free expression to my complaint; 1 I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 1

Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning. 1 All night I drench my bed with tears; 1 I wash my couch away with my tears. 1

Isaiah 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me a tongue as one of those who are taught, 1 so that I speak a sustaining word to the weary one; 1 he wakes me morning by morning; he awakens my ear to hear like those who are taught. 1

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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