Job 16:8
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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.

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

Job 10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me; changes and war are against me.

Ruth 1:21 I went out full and the LORD has brought me home again empty: why then call you me Naomi, seeing the LORD has testified against me...

Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing...

my leanness

Psalm 106:15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

Isaiah 10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness...

Isaiah 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness...

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You have shriveled me up--it has become a witness; My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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 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.

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.

Job 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.


Job 17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job 19:20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Psalm 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

You have shriveled me  up — it has become a witness; My frailty rises up against  me and testifies to  my  face. —HCSB

"You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face. —NASB

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. —KJV


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Job Chapter 16 Verse 8

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