English Standard Version
Job 16:7
7Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.
Context of Job 16:7
5I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. 6"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me? Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company. 8And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. 9He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
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 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
- Job 7:3so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
- Job 10:1"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Psalms 6:6I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
- Proverbs 3:11My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
- Isaiah 50:4The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
- Micah 6:13Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.
- Job 1:15and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
- Job 29:5when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all 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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