God’s Word Translation
Job 16:8
8You have shriveled me up, which itself is a witness ⌞against me⌟. My frail body rises up and testifies against me.
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
6If I speak, my pain is not eased. If I stop talking, how much of it will go away? 7“But now, God has worn me out. You, ⌞God,⌟ have destroyed everyone who supports me. You have shriveled me up, which itself is a witness ⌞against me⌟. My frail body rises up and testifies against me. 9“God’s anger tore me ⌞apart⌟ and attacked me. He gritted his teeth at me. My opponent looked sharply at me. 10People ridiculed me with their mouths. They slapped my cheeks with contempt. They united against me.
Read all of Job 16Job 16:8 word by word
וַֽ֭תִּקְמְטֵנִי לְעֵ֣ד הָיָ֑ה וַיָּ֥קָם בִּ֥י כַ֝חֲשִׁ֗י בְּפָנַ֥י יַעֲנֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 16:8
- Job 10:17You keep finding new witnesses against me. You keep increasing your anger toward me. You keep bringing new armies against me.
- Ruth 1:21I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi when the Lord has tormented me and the Almighty has done evil to me?”
- Ephesians 5:27Then he could present it to himself as a glorious church, without any kind of stain or wrinkle—holy and without faults.
- Psalms 106:15He gave them what they asked for. He ⌞also⌟ gave them a degenerative disease.
- Isaiah 10:16That is why the Almighty Lord of Armies will send a degenerative disease against brave men. A flame will be turned into a raging fire under his power.
- Isaiah 24:16From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise that honor the Righteous One. But I kept saying, “I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! How horrible it is for me! Traitors continue to betray, and their treachery grows worse and worse.”
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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