Job 16 · Verse 7

Job 16:7

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job 16:7, King James Version

Job 16:7 in other translations

BSBSurely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
WEBBut now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
ASVBut now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
YLTOnly, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
DARBYBut now he hath made me weary;...thou hast made desolate all my family;
BBEBut now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
WebsterBut now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

What does Job 16:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. But now--rather, "ah!" he--God. company--rather, "band of witnesses," namely, those who could attest his innocence (his children, servants, &c.). So the same Hebrew is translated in Job 16:8. Umbreit makes his "band of witnesses," himself, for, alas! he had no other witness for him. But this is too recondite.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 16:6-16

Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows…

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Job 16:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַךְ\־'akh-neverthelessH389
עַתָּ֥ה'a.TahnowH6258
הֶלְאָ֑נִיhel.'A.nihe has made weary meH3811
הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָha.shi.Mo.tayou have devastatedH8074
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
עֲדָתִֽי\׃'a.da.Ticompany myH5712

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 16:7

  • Job 7:3

    So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • Job 1:15-19

    And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house: …

  • Proverbs 3:11-12

    My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction: For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

  • Micah 6:13

    Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

  • Job 3:17

    There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

  • Job 7:16

    I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

  • Job 29:5-25

    When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me; When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil; When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. …

  • Psalms 6:6-7

    I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

  • Isaiah 50:4

    The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

  • Job 10:1

    My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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he hath.
3:17; 7:3,16; 10:1; Ps 6:6,7; Pr 3:11,12; Isa 50:4; Mic 6:13
hast made.
1:15-19; 29:5-25

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Context

  • Job 16:6

    Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • Job 16:7

    But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • Job 16:8

    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.

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Job 16:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Empero ahora me ha fatigado: has tú asolado toda mi compañía.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mais maintenant, il m’a fatigué…: tu as dévasté toute ma famille;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ja, bereits hat er mich erschöpft; -du hast meinen ganzen Hausstand verwüstet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sed quid agam? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus, et si tacuero, non recedet a me.