Job 16:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

Job 16:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 10:17
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Ruth 1:21
I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Ephesians 5:27
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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. 8)

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…