Job 16:8
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New International Version (©1984)
You have bound me--and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You have shriveled me up, which itself is a witness [against me]. My frail body rises up and testifies against me.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

American Standard Version
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.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

Geneva Study Bible

And thou hast filled me with {i} wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

(i) In token of sorrow and grief.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

8. 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 "to draw together," whence flow the double meaning "to bind" or "fetter," and in Syriac, "to wrinkle."

leanness-meaning also "lie"; implying it was a "false witness."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:6-16 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.


Job 10:17 'You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.
Job 19:20 "My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 109:24 My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness. (NASB ©1995)

Beareth Bound Face Fast Filled Flesh Hold Leanness Makes Rise Risen Rises Riseth Rising Shriveled Shrivelled Testifies Testifieth Wasting Witness

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.

And thou hast, etc. (Some render, 'thou has fettered me,' as kamat signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.)

is a witness 10:17 Ru 1:21 Eph 5:27

my leanness Ps 106:15 Isa 10:16 24:16

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