Job 16:8

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

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WEBBE

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

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.

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.

BBE

It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

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וַתִּקְמְטֵנִי va·tik·me·te·ni and you have seized me H7059 לְעֵד le·'ed (into) a witness H5707 הָיָה ha·yah it has become H1961 וַיָּקָם vai·ya·kom and it has risen up H6965 בִּי bi on me H9030 כַחֲשִׁי kha·cha·shi leanness my H3585 בְּפָנַי be·fa·nai in face my H6440 יַעֲנֶה ya·'a·neh it testifies H6030

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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 blessed that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

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