Job 23:16

New King James Version

For God made my heart weak, And the Almighty terrifies me;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God has made my heart faint;the Almighty has terrified me.

Hebrew Names Version
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

King James Version
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

English Standard Version
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

New Century Version
God has made me afraid; the Almighty terrifies me.

New English Translation
Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Amplified Bible
"For God has made my heart faint, And the Almighty has terrified me,

New American Standard Bible
"It is God who has made my heart faint, And the Almighty who has terrified me,

World English Bible
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For God hath softened mine heart, & the Almightie hath troubled me.

Legacy Standard Bible
It is God who has made my heart faint,And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

Berean Standard Bible
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Contemporary English Version
makes me tremble with fear.

Complete Jewish Bible
God has undermined my courage; Shaddai frightens me.

Darby Translation
For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;

Easy-to-Read Version
The fear of God has made me lose my courage. God All-Powerful makes me afraid.

George Lamsa Translation
For God has troubled my heart, and my mind is confused:

Good News Translation
Almighty God has destroyed my courage. It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid— even though the darkness has made me blind.

Lexham English Bible
Indeed, God has made my heart faint, and Shaddai has terrified me.

Literal Translation
For God makes my heart weak, and the Almighty troubles me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For in so moch as he is God, he maketh my herte soft: and seynge that he is Allmightie, he putteth me in feare.

American Standard Version
For God hath made my heart faint, And the Almighty hath terrified me;

Bible in Basic English
For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, God hath made my heart faint, and the Almighty hath affrighted me;

King James Version (1611)
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.

English Revised Version
For God hath made my heart faint, and the Almighty hath troubled me:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God hath maad neische myn herte, and Almyyti God hath disturblid me.

Update Bible Version
For God has made my heart faint, And the Almighty has terrified me;

Webster's Bible Translation
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

New Living Translation
God has made me sick at heart; the Almighty has terrified me.

New Life Bible
God has made my heart weak. The All-powerful has filled me with fear.

New Revised Standard
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, GOD, hath made timid my heart, and, the Almighty, hath put me in terror.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.

Revised Standard Version
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

Young's Literal Translation
And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"It is God who has made my heart faint, And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

Contextual Overview

¹³ "But He is unique, and who can make Him change? And whatever His soul desires, that He does. ¹⁴ For He performs what is appointed for me, And many such things are with Him. ¹⁵ Therefore I am terrified at His presence; When I consider this, I am afraid of Him. ¹⁶ For God made my heart weak, And the Almighty terrifies me; ¹⁷ Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For God: Psalms 22:14, Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah 57:16

Almighty: Job 27:2, Ruth 1:20, Psalms 88:16, Joel 1:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:24 - and troubled Job 34:36 - My desire is that Job may be tried Psalms 55:5 - Fearfulness Psalms 77:3 - I remembered John 14:1 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 23:15
"My lord, listen to me; the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that between you and me? So bury your dead."

Genesis 43:21
but it happened, when we came to the encampment, that we opened our sacks, and there, each man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; so we have brought it back in our hand.

Exodus 30:13
This is what everyone among those who are numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (a shekel is twenty gerahs). The half-shekel shall be an offering to the LORD.

Job 28:15
It cannot be purchased for gold, Nor can silver be weighed for its price.

Jeremiah 32:9
So I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle who was in Anathoth, and weighed out to him the money--seventeen shekels of silver.

Ezekiel 45:12
The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels shall be your mina.

Zechariah 11:12
Then I said to them, "If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain." So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 7:12
Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 13:8
Mark 12:31; James 2:8">[xr] Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For God maketh my heart soft,.... Not tender as Josiah's was,

2 Kings 22:19, or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away the stony heart, and gives an heart of flesh; though Job had such an heart, and God made it so; but he means a weak, feeble, fearful heart, pressed and broken with afflictions, that could not endure and bear up under the mighty hand of God; but became as water, and melted like wax in the midst of him, and was ready to faint, and sink, and die away:

and the Almighty troubleth me; by afflicting him; afflictions cause trouble, and these are of God; or he "astonishes" a, amazes me, throws me into the utmost consternation, the reason of which follows.

a הבהילני "me attonitum reddidit", Vatablus; "consternavit me", Drusius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "externavit me", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For God maketh my heart soft - That is, “faint.” He takes away my strength; compare the notes at Isaiah 7:4. This effect was produced on Job by the contemplation of the eternal plan and the power of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 23:16. For God maketh my heart soft — Prostrates my strength, deprives me of courage, so that I sink beneath my burden, and I am troubled at the thought of the Almighty, the self-sufficient and eternal Being.