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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.

Context of Job 16:7

5But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief. 6“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away. Surely, God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household. 8You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me. 9God assails me and tears me in his anger and gnashes his teeth at me; my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.

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 7:3so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
• Job 10:1“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
• Psalms 6:6I am worn out from my groaning. All night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
• Proverbs 3:11My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline, and do not resent his rebuke,
• Isaiah 50:4The Sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed.
• Micah 6:13Therefore, I have begun to destroy you, to ruin you because of your sins.
• Job 1:15and the Sabeans attacked and made off with them. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has 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

• Comforter
• Foul
• Plead
• Scorn
• Bildad

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