Job 16:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Job 16:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:3
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Job 1:15-19
And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. …
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7:16
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-16)

Job’s complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the afflicted, according as the temper or the circumstances are; but Job found help by neither, Job 16:6. 1. Sometimes giving vent to grief gives ease; but, “ Though I speak ” (says Job), “ my grief is not assu…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. 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.