Job 16:7
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
BSB
ASV
But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.
KJV
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Isaiah 50:4The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
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For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
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Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
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And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors,…
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
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Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
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I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.