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Complete Jewish Bible

Job 16:7

"But now he has worn me out; you have desolated this whole community of mine.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Surely he has now exhausted me.You have devastated my entire family.
Hebrew Names Version
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
King James Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
English Standard Version
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
New Century Version
God, you have surely taken away my strength and destroyed my whole family.
New English Translation
Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
Amplified Bible
"But now God has exhausted me. You [O Lord] have destroyed all my family and my household.
New American Standard Bible
"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my group of loved ones.
World English Bible
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,
Legacy Standard Bible
But now He has exhausted me;You have made desolate all my company.
Berean Standard Bible
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
Contemporary English Version
God has worn me down and destroyed my family;
Darby Translation
But now he hath made me weary; … thou hast made desolate all my family;
Easy-to-Read Version
God, you surely took away my strength. You destroyed my whole family.
George Lamsa Translation
But now he has troubled me, and yet has preserved all of my testimony.
Good News Translation
You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.
Lexham English Bible
"Surely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company.
Literal Translation
But now He has made me weary. You have made all my company desolate.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And now that I am full of payne, and all that I haue destroied
American Standard Version
But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
Bible in Basic English
But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But now He hath made me weary; Thou hast made desolate all my company.
King James Version (1611)
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate al my companie.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But now that [God] hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?
English Revised Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But now my sorewe hath oppressid me, and alle my lymes ben dryuun in to nouyt.
Update Bible Version
But now he has made me weary: You have made desolate all my company.
Webster's Bible Translation
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
New King James Version
But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.
New Living Translation
"O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.
New Life Bible
But now God has taken away my strength. He has taken away all my family.
New Revised Standard
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(16-8) But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
Revised Standard Version
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
Young's Literal Translation
Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.

Contextual Overview

6 If I speak, my own pain isn't eased; and if I don't speak, it still doesn't leave. 7 "But now he has worn me out; you have desolated this whole community of mine. 8 Besides, you have shriveled me up; and this serves to witness against me. My being so thin rises up against me and testifies to my face. 9 He tears me apart in his anger; he holds a grudge against me; he gnashes on me with his teeth. "My enemies look daggers at me. 10 Wide-mouthed, they gape at me; with scorn, they slap my cheeks; they gather themselves together against me. 11 "God delivers me to the perverse, throws me into the hands of the wicked. 12 I was at peace, and he shook me apart. Yes, he grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target — 13 his archers surrounded me. He slashes my innards and shows no mercy, he pours my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks in on me again and again, attacking me like a warrior. 15 "I sewed sackcloth together to cover my skin and laid my pride in the dust;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he hath: Job 3:17, Job 7:3, Job 7:16, Job 10:1, Psalms 6:6, Psalms 6:7, Proverbs 3:11, Proverbs 3:12, Isaiah 50:4, Micah 6:13

hast made: Job 1:15-19, Job 29:5-25

Reciprocal: Job 37:23 - he will Lamentations 3:11 - he hath made

Cross-References

Genesis 20:1
Avraham traveled from there toward the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. While living as an alien in G'rar,
Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What's wrong with you, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the boy in his present situation.
Genesis 22:11
But the angel of Adonai called to him out of heaven: "Avraham? Avraham!" He answered, "Here I am."
Genesis 22:15
The angel of Adonai called to Avraham a second time out of heaven.
Genesis 25:18
Yishma‘el's sons lived between Havilah and Shur, near Egypt as you go toward Ashur; he settled near all his kinsmen. Haftarah Hayyei-Sarah: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 1:1–31 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Hayyei-Sarah: Mattityahu (Matthew) 8:19–22; 27:3–10; Luke 9:57–62 Here is the history of Yitz'chak, Avraham's son. Avraham fathered Yitz'chak. Yitz'chak was forty years old when he took Rivkah, the daughter of B'tu'el the Arami from Paddan-Aram and sister of Lavan the Arami, to be his wife. Yitz'chak prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. Adonai heeded his prayer, and Rivkah became pregnant. The children fought with each other inside her so much that she said, "If it's going to be like this, why go on living?" So she went to inquire of Adonai , who answered her, "There are two nations in your womb. From birth they will be two rival peoples. One of these peoples will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger." When the time for her delivery came, there were twins in her womb. The first to come out was reddish and covered all over with hair, like a coat; so they named him ‘Esav [completely formed, that is, having hair already]. Then his brother emerged, with his hand holding ‘Esav's heel, so he was called Ya‘akov [he catches by the heel, he supplants]. Yitz'chak was sixty years old when she bore them. The boys grew; and ‘Esav became a skillful hunter, an outdoorsman; while Ya‘akov was a quiet man who stayed in the tents. Yitz'chak favored ‘Esav, because he had a taste for game; Rivkah favored Ya‘akov. One day when Ya‘akov had cooked some stew, ‘Esav came in from the open country, exhausted, and said to Ya‘akov, "Please! Let me gulp down some of that red stuff — that red stuff! I'm exhausted!" (This is why he was called Edom [red].) Ya‘akov answered, "First sell me your rights as the firstborn." "Look, I'm about to die!" said ‘Esav. "What use to me are my rights as the firstborn?" Ya‘akov said, "First, swear to me!" So he swore to him, thus selling his birthright to Ya‘akov. Then Ya‘akov gave him bread and lentil stew; he ate and drank, got up and went on his way. Thus ‘Esav showed how little he valued his birthright.
Genesis 31:11
Then, in the dream, the angel of God said to me, ‘Ya‘akov!' and I replied, ‘Here I am.'
Exodus 15:22
Moshe led Isra'el onward from the Sea of Suf. They went out into the Shur Desert; but after traveling three days in the desert, they had found no water.
1 Samuel 15:7
Then Sha'ul attacked ‘Amalek, starting at Havilah and continuing toward Shur, at the border of Egypt.
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of Adonai are everywhere, watching the evil and the good.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But now he hath made me weary,.... Or "it hath made me weary" u, that is, "my grief", as it may be supplied from Job 16:6; or rather God, as appears from the next clause, and from the following verse, where he is manifestly addressed; who by afflicting him had made him weary of the world, and all things in it, even of his very life,

Job 10:1; his afflictions were so heavy upon him, and pressed him so hard, that his life was a burden to him; they were heavier than the sand of the sea, and his strength was not equal to them; he could scarcely drag along, was ready to sink and lie down under the weight of them:

thou hast made desolate all my company, or "congregation" w; the congregation of saints that met at his house for religious worship, as some think, which now through his affliction was broke up, whom Eliphaz had called a congregation of hypocrites, Job 15:34; which passage Job may have respect unto; or rather his family, his children, which were taken away from him: the Jews say x, ten persons in any place make a congregation; this was just the number of Job's children, seven sons and three daughters; or it may be he may have respect to his friends, that came to visit him, who were moved and stupefied as it were at the sight of him and his afflictions, as the word y is by some translated, and who were alienated from him; were not friendly to him, nor administered to him any comfort; so that they were as if he had none, or worse.

u "Dolor meus", V. L. so Aben Ezra Cocceius. w עדתי "meam congregationem", Pagninus "conventum meum", Montanus, Bolducius. x Vid. Drusium in loc. y "Stupefe isti", Tigurine version; so Jarchi.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But now he hath made me weary - That is, God has exhausted my strength. This verse introduces a new description of his sufferings; and he begins with a statement of the woes that God had brought on him. The first was, that he had taken away all his strength.

All my company - The word rendered “company” (עדה êdâh) means properly an assembly that comes together by appointment, or at stated times; but here it is evidently used in the sense of the little community of which Job was the head and father. The sense is, that all his family had been destroyed.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 16:7. But now he hath made me weary — The Vulgate translates thus: - Nunc autem oppressit me dolor meus; et in nihilum redacti sunt omnes artus mei; "But now my grief oppresses me, and all my joints are reduced to nothing." Perhaps Job alluded here to his own afflictions, and the desolation of his family. Thou hast made me weary with continual affliction; my strength is quite exhausted; and thou hast made desolate all my company, not leaving me a single child to continue my name, or to comfort me in sickness or old age. Mr. Good translates: -

"Here, indeed, hath he distracted me;

Thou hast struck apart all my witnesses."


 
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