Job 16:7

But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Though I do speak, unassuaged is my stinging pain,—And, if I forbear, of what am I relieved?

8And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth.

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Cross References

Job 3:17There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:

Job 7:3So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.

Job 10:1My soul doth loathe my life,—I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.

Psalms 6:6I am weary with my sighing, I flood, through the whole night, my couch,—With my tears, I cause, my bed, to dissolve:

Isaiah 50:4My Lord Yahweh, hath given unto me the tongue of the instructed, That I should know how to succour the fainting, with discourse,—He kept wakening—morning by morning. He kept wakening mine ear, to hearken as do the instructed;

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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