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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

  • So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • 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. …

  • 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.

  • My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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…

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