EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 16:8
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.
Job 16:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.
Context of Job 16:8
6But now, if I speak, my pain does not become any better. If I stop speaking, my pain continues to be there. 7God, you have made me very weak. You have destroyed my family. You 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. 10People insult me and they laugh at me. They hit me on my face. They all join together to attack me.
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וַֽ֭תִּקְמְטֵנִי לְעֵ֣ד הָיָ֑ה וַיָּ֥קָם בִּ֥י כַ֝חֲשִׁ֗י בְּפָנַ֥י יַעֲנֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 16:8
- Job 10:17You find more reasons to attack me. You become more and more angry with me. You attack me with even greater power.
- Ruth 1:21I left here with everything that I needed. Now the Lord has brought me back here with nothing. The Almighty Lord has turned against me, so that I have suffered. It is not right for you to call me Naomi.’
- Ephesians 5:27Christ himself did this to bring us to himself as a beautiful group of his people. His church would belong to him completely. It would be pure, without anything bad to spoil it.
- Psalms 106:15He gave them the food that they asked for, but he also sent a bad disease on them.
- Isaiah 10:16So the Lord, the Almighty Lord, will punish Assyria's soldiers. They are now fat and healthy, but they will become thin! It will be like a fire that burns them, with all their proud strength.
- Isaiah 24:16From every part of the earth, we hear songs. People sing to praise the Righteous One. But I say, ‘I have become very weak and thin! It will be very bad for me! Evil people are turning against their friends. They deceive people more and more!’
Commentaries on Job 16:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Thou hast filled me with wrinkles - If Job's disease were the elephantiasis, in which the whole skin is wrinkled as the skin of the elephant, from which this species of leprosy has taken its name, these words would apply most forcibly to it; but the whole passage, through its obscurity, has been variously rendered. Calmet unites it with the preceding, and Houbigant is not very different. He translates thus: - "For my trouble hath now weakened all my…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles - Noyes renders this, “and thou hast seized hold of me, which is a witness against me.” Wemyss, “since thou hast bound me with chains, witnesses come forward.” Good, “and hast cut off myself from becoming a witness.” Luther, “he has made me “kuntzlich” (skillfully, artificially, cunningly,) and bears witness against me.” Jerome, “my wrinkles bear witness against me.” Septuagint, “my lie has become a witness, and is…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
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. filled ... with wrinkles--Rather (as also the same Hebrew word in Job 22:16; English Version, "cut down"), "thou hast fettered me, thy witness" (besides cutting off my "band of witnesses," Job 16:7), that is, hast disabled me by pains from properly attesting my innocence. But another "witness" arises against him, namely, his "leanness" or wretched state of body, construed by his friends into a proof of his guilt. The radical meaning of the Hebrew is…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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