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

5But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief. 6“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking – how much of it goes away? Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household. 8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me. 9His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

Job 16:7 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• But now he hath made me wearyלָאָהlâ'âh · be wearyH3811
• thou hast made desolateשָׁמֵםshâmêm · be desolate: destroyedH8074
• all my companyעֵדָה‛êdâh · congregationH5712

Cross-references for Job 16:7

• Job 3:17There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
• Job 7:3thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
• Job 10:1“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Psalms 6:6I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.
• Proverbs 3:11My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, and do not loathe his rebuke.
• Isaiah 50:4The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.
• Micah 6:13I will strike you brutally and destroy you because of your sin.
• Job 1:15and the Sabeans swooped down and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”
• Job 29:5when the Almighty was still with me and my children were 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

Topics related to Job 16:7

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

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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