Tree of Life Version
Job 16:7
7Surely now He has exhausted me; You have devastated my entire household.
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 mouth and comfort from my lips would bring you relief. 6“Yet, if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain, does it not go away from me? Surely now He has exhausted me; You have devastated my entire household. 8You have seized me— it has become a witness; my leanness rises against me and testifies to my face. 9His anger has torn and tormented me; He gnashes at me with his teeth; my enemy looks at me with daggers in his eyes.
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 turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
- Job 7:3so I have inherited months of futility, and nights of distress have been appointed to me.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak out of the bitterness of my soul.
- Psalms 6:6For there is no memory of You in death, in Sheol who will praise You?
- Proverbs 3:11My son, never despise Adonai’s discipline or dread His correction.
- Isaiah 50:4Adonai Elohim has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning. He awakens My ear to give heed as a disciple.
- Micah 6:13So also I will strike you severely, desolating you because of your sins.
- Job 1:15when the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They also killed the servants with the edge of the sword—I alone escaped to tell you!”
- Job 29:5when Shaddai was still with me, and my children surrounded 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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