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.
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Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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?
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
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.
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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