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Job 16:8

SufferingSickness and healing

6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

9 His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

10 They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

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BSB
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
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.
WEB
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
ASV
And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
DARBY
Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
BLB
You have bound me—it is a witness; and my leanness rises up against me; it testifies against my face.
ÅB
Og du grep meg fatt - det ble et vitne mot meg; min magerhet sto opp imot meg, like i mitt åsyn vitnet den mot meg.
OTB
Du har skrumpet meg inn,
og det har blitt et vitne;
min avmagring reiser seg
og vitner mot meg.
B1930
Og du grep mig fatt - det blev et vidne mot mig; min magerhet stod op imot mig, like i mitt åsyn vidnet den mot mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Job 10:17

    You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

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  • Job 19:20

    My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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  • Ruth 1:21

    I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

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  • Psalms 109:24

    My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

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  • Psalms 106:15

    So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.

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  • Ephesians 5:27

    and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

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  • Isaiah 24:16

    From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.

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  • Isaiah 10:16

    Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.

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