Job 16:8

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

6“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking – how much of it goes away? 7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household. You 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. 10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

Job 16:8 word by word

וַֽ֭תִּקְמְטֵנִי לְעֵ֣ד הָיָ֑ה וַיָּ֥קָם בִּ֥י כַ֝חֲשִׁ֗י בְּפָנַ֥י יַעֲנֶֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And thou hast filled me with wrinklesקָמַטqâmaţ · to seizeH7059
• is a witnessעֵד‛êd · witnessH5707
• and my leannessכַּ֫חַשׁkachash · lieH3585
• rising upקוּםqûm · to arise: attackH6965
• in me beareth witnessעָנָה‛ânâh · to answerH6030
• to my faceפָּנֶהpânîym · faceH6440

Cross-references for Job 16:8

• Job 10:17You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.
• Ruth 1:21I left here full, but the Lord has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me ‘Naomi,’ seeing that the Lord has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?”
• Ephesians 5:27so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.
• Psalms 106:15He granted their request, then struck them with a disease.
• Isaiah 10:16For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.
• Isaiah 24:16From the ends of the earth we hear songs – the Just One is majestic. But I say, “I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!”

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

Topics related to Job 16:8

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

• Comforter
• Foul
• Plead
• Scorn
• Bildad
• Wrinkle

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