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Job 16:7
7God, you have made me very weak. You have destroyed my 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
5But, instead, I would help you to be strong. I would say things to comfort you. 6But now, if I speak, my pain does not become any better. If I stop speaking, my pain continues to be there. God, you have made me very weak. You have destroyed my family. 8You have taken hold of me. Because of my troubles, people think that I am guilty. Because my body is so thin, people think that I have done bad things. 9God attacks me and he punishes me because he is angry. He shows his anger like a wild animal. He has become my enemy.
Read all of Job 16Job 16:7 word by word
אַךְ־עַתָּ֥ה הֶלְאָ֑נִי הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָ כָּל־עֲדָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 16:7
- Job 3:17After death, wicked people can no longer cause any trouble. People who have become tired can rest.
- Job 7:3But there is nothing for me to wait for. I wait for many months and nothing happens. Every night, I am always sad.
- Job 10:1I do not want to live any longer. I must continue to complain. I am very upset and I have to speak about it.
- Psalms 6:6I am crying so much that I have no more strength. My bed becomes wet because I weep all night. My tears run into my pillow.
- Proverbs 3:11My child, if the Lord warns you that you have done something wrong, accept it. Do not be upset if he warns you.
- Isaiah 50:4‘The Almighty Lord has given his message to me, his servant. I speak it on his behalf. I know what to say to help weak and tired people. The Lord wakes me up every morning so that I can learn something. I listen carefully to him, as a student listens to his teacher.
- Micah 6:13So I will make you so sick that you will never get well. I have begun to destroy you because you have done bad things.
- Job 1:15Some men from Sheba suddenly came and they attacked us. They took away all your oxen and your donkeys. They also killed all your other servants. I was the only one who escaped. I ran here to tell you what has happened.’
- Job 29:5At that time, Almighty God was still with me. My children were near 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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