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THE MESSAGE
Job 16:7
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
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- CharlesParallel Translations
Surely he has now exhausted me.You have devastated my entire family.
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
God, you have surely taken away my strength and destroyed my whole family.
Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
"But now God has exhausted me. You [O Lord] have destroyed all my family and my household.
"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my group of loved ones.
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,
But now He has exhausted me;You have made desolate all my company.
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
God has worn me down and destroyed my family;
"But now he has worn me out; you have desolated this whole community of mine.
But now he hath made me weary; … thou hast made desolate all my family;
God, you surely took away my strength. You destroyed my whole family.
But now he has troubled me, and yet has preserved all of my testimony.
You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.
"Surely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company.
But now He has made me weary. You have made all my company desolate.
And now that I am full of payne, and all that I haue destroied
But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
But now He hath made me weary; Thou hast made desolate all my company.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate al my companie.
But now that [God] hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation.
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?
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
But now my sorewe hath oppressid me, and alle my lymes ben dryuun in to nouyt.
But now he has made me weary: You have made desolate all my company.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.
"O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.
But now God has taken away my strength. He has taken away all my family.
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family;
(16-8) But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
"But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company.
Contextual Overview
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
Abraham traveled from there south to the Negev and settled down between Kadesh and Shur. While he was camping in Gerar, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She's my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimelech in a dream that night and told him, "You're as good as dead—that woman you took, she's a married woman." Now Abimelech had not yet slept with her, hadn't so much as touched her. He said, "Master, would you kill an innocent man? Didn't he tell me, ‘She's my sister'? And didn't she herself say, ‘He's my brother'? I had no idea I was doing anything wrong when I did this." God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family." Abimelech was up first thing in the morning. He called all his house servants together and told them the whole story. They were shocked. Then Abimelech called in Abraham and said, "What have you done to us? What have I ever done to you that you would bring on me and my kingdom this huge offense? What you've done to me ought never to have been done." Abimelech went on to Abraham, "Whatever were you thinking of when you did this thing?" Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'" Then Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham, and along with her sent sheep and cattle and servants, both male and female. He said, "My land is open to you; live wherever you wish." And to Sarah he said, "I've given your brother a thousand pieces of silver—that clears you of even a shadow of suspicion before the eyes of the world. You're vindicated." Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his maidservants, and they started having babies again. For God had shut down every womb in Abimelech's household on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Meanwhile, God heard the boy crying. The angel of God called from Heaven to Hagar, "What's wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid. God has heard the boy and knows the fix he's in. Up now; go get the boy. Hold him tight. I'm going to make of him a great nation."
Just then an angel of God called to him out of Heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Yes, I'm listening."
The angel of God spoke from Heaven a second time to Abraham: "I swear— God 's sure word!—because you have gone through with this, and have not refused to give me your son, your dear, dear son, I'll bless you—oh, how I'll bless you! And I'll make sure that your children flourish—like stars in the sky! like sand on the beaches! And your descendants will defeat their enemies. All nations on Earth will find themselves blessed through your descendants because you obeyed me."
Moses led Israel from the Red Sea on to the Wilderness of Shur. They traveled for three days through the wilderness without finding any water. They got to Marah, but they couldn't drink the water at Marah; it was bitter. That's why they called the place Marah (Bitter). And the people complained to Moses, "So what are we supposed to drink?"
Then Saul went after Amalek, from the canyon all the way to Shur near the Egyptian border. He captured Agag, king of Amalek, alive. Everyone else was killed under the terms of the holy ban. Saul and the army made an exception for Agag, and for the choice sheep and cattle. They didn't include them under the terms of the holy ban. But all the rest, which nobody wanted anyway, they destroyed as decreed by the holy ban.
God doesn't miss a thing— he's alert to good and evil alike.
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."
