Christian Standard Bible
Job 16:7
7Surely he has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.
Job 16:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
- New International Version (NIV)Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.
Context of Job 16:7
5Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief. 6If I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, does any of it leave me? Surely he has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family. 8You have shriveled me up — it has become a witness; my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face. 9His anger tears at me, and he harasses me. He gnashes his teeth at me. My enemy pierces me with his eyes.
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אַךְ־עַתָּ֥ה הֶלְאָ֑נִי הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָ כָּל־עֲדָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 16:7
- Job 3:17There the wicked cease to make trouble, and there the weary find rest.
- Job 7:3So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
- Job 10:1I am disgusted with my life. I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Psalms 6:6I am weary from my groaning; with my tears I dampen my bed and drench my couch every night.
- Proverbs 3:11Do not despise the Lord’s instruction, my son, and do not loathe his discipline;
- Isaiah 50:4The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are instructed to know how to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens me each morning; he awakens my ear to listen like those being instructed.
- Micah 6:13“As a result, I have begun to strike you severely, bringing desolation because of your sins.
- Job 1:15the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They struck down the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 29:5when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
Commentaries on Job 16:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7But now he hath made me weary - The Vulgate translates thus: - Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus; et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei; "But now my grief oppresses me, and all my joints are reduced to nothing." Perhaps Job alluded here to his own afflictions, and the desolation of his family. Thou hast made me weary with continual affliction; my strength is quite exhausted; and thou hast made desolate all my company, not leaving me a single child…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7But now he hath made me weary - That is, God has exhausted my strength. This verse introduces a new description of his sufferings; and he begins with a statement of the woes that God had brought on him. The first was, that he had taken away all his strength. All my company - The word rendered “company” (עדה ‛êdâh ) means properly an assembly that comes together by appointment, or at stated times; but here it is evidently used in the sense of the little…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and pronounced those…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7Job's family includes by extension his household and his servants (1:15–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. But now--rather, "ah!" he--God. company--rather, "band of witnesses," namely, those who could attest his innocence (his children, servants, &c.). So the same Hebrew is translated in Job 16:8. Umbreit makes his "band of witnesses," himself, for, alas! he had no other witness for him. But this is too recondite.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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