Job 16:16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids are the shades of death;
Webster Bible
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 upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
17Not for any injustice in my hands: also my prayer is pure.
Cross References
Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms 116:3The sorrows of death encompassed me, and the pains of hell came upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Mark 14:34And saith to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful to death: tarry ye 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 →