Job 16:16
My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,
World English Bible Updated
In The King James Version
My face is foul with weeping, and my eyelids is the shadow of death;
In Context
15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.
17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Cross References
Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
Psalms 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Lamentations 1:16“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
Mark 14:34He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”
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 →