Job 16:7
in Job 16Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
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.
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This verse in Job 16
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
This site's exposition
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved
on Job 16:6-8
Speech brings no relief and silence brings none: "if I hold back, how will it go away". His body is the witness, "my frailty rises up and testifies against me". Barnes notes that the friends took wasting illness as proof of hidden sin, which chapter 1 denies.
This site's exposition
You have devastated all my family
Job speaks of God, then turns and speaks to Him. Barnes reads the first line as God having exhausted his strength. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown take the devastated family as witnesses who could testify to his innocence.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistMorals on the Book of Job, Book XIII · Written before 604.
proposed
Ver. 7. But what am I to do?
He shows as a result what he understands about this second pain which cannot be taken away by words when he says, "now my pain has oppressed me," i.e. impeded me so that I cannot easily or freely reason like I did before. For when …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
But now he hath made me weary,....
The company of good people that used to meet at his house for religious worship, was now scattered, and he spent his sabbaths in silence and solitude. He had company indeed, but such as he would rather have been without, for they seemed to triumph in his desolation. If lovers and friends are put far from us, we must see and own God's hand in it, making our company desolate.
He still holds fast his integrity, concerning which he appeals to God's righteous judgment from the unrighteous censures of his friends,
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
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.”
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַךְ־ | ʾakh- | nevertheless | H389 → | 161 times |
| עַתָּ֥ה | ʾatah | now | H6258 → | 433 times |
| הֶלְאָ֑נִי | helani | he has made weary me | H3811 → | 19 times |
| הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָ | hashimota | you have devastated | H8074 → | 86 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| עֲדָתִֽי׃ | ʾadati | company my | H5712 → |
אַךְ־nevertheless
ʾakh-H389 →161 times
עַתָּ֥הnow
ʾatahH6258 →433 times
הֶלְאָ֑נִיhe has made weary me
helaniH3811 →19 times
הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָyou have devastated
hashimotaH8074 →86 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
עֲדָתִֽי׃company my
ʾadatiH5712 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
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.
it leads to
- Luke 21:15
For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
- Jeremiah 1:9
Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
- John 7:15–17
The Jews were amazed and asked, “How did this man attain such learning without having studied?”
- Exodus 4:11–12
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?
- Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
- Luke 21:15
Through
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
it leads to
- Revelation 14:13
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,…
- Job 17:16
Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
- Revelation 14:13
Through
Job 7:3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
it leads to
- Psalms 6:6
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalms 6:6
About Job
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIII; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.