Job 16:7

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

5[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain]. 6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased? But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate all my family; 8Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face. 9His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

Job 16:7 word by word

אַךְ־עַתָּ֥ה הֶלְאָ֑נִי הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָ כָּל־עֲדָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear

• nowעַתָּ֫ה‛attâh · nowH6258
• madeשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• wearyלָאָהlâ'âh · be wearyH3811

Cross-references for Job 16:7

• Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.
• Job 7:3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
• Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Psalms 6:6I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
• Proverbs 3:11My son, despise not the instruction of Jehovah, neither be weary of his chastisement;
• Isaiah 50:4The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.
• Micah 6:13Therefore also will I make [thee] sick in smiting thee; I will make [thee] desolate because of thy sins.
• Job 1:15and [they of] Sheba fell [upon them] and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.
• Job 29:5When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about 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

Topics related to Job 16:7

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

• Comforter
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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