Job 16:8 BSB — MannaFest

Job 16:8

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

BSB

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ASV

And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

KJV

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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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Thou hast filled me with wrinkles - If Job’s disease were the elephantiasis, in which the whole skin is wrinkled as the skin of the elephant, from which this species of leprosy has taken its name, these words would apply most forcibly to it; but the whole passage, through its obscurity, has been variously rendered. Calmet unites it with the preceding, and Houbigant is not very different.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But another "witness" arises against him, namely, his "leanness" or wretched state of body, construed by his friends into a proof of his guilt. The radical meaning of the Hebrew is "to draw together," whence flow the double meaning "to bind" or "fetter," and in Syriac, "to wrinkle." leanness--meaning also "lie"; implying it was a "false witness."

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽ֭תִּקְמְטֵנִי	Va.tik.me.te.ni	and you have seized me	H7059 →
לְעֵ֣ד	le.'Ed	<into> a witness	H5707 →
הָיָ֑ה	ha.Yah	it has become	H1961 →
וַיָּ֥קָם	vai.Ya.kom	and it has risen up	H6965 →
בִּ֥י	bi	on me
כַ֝חֲשִׁ֗י	kha.cha.Shi	leanness my	H3585 →
בְּפָנַ֥י	be.fa.Nai	in face my	H6440 →
יַעֲנֶֽה׃	ya.'a.Neh	it testifies	H6030 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
leads to
- Psalms 32:3–4
  When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 12:12
  Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
- Matthew 4:2
  After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Through
Ruth 1:21
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
leads to
- Job 1:21
  saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- 1 Samuel 2:7–8
  The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
Through
Job 19:20
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
leads to
- Psalms 102:5
  Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
Through
Job 10:17
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
leads to
- Ruth 1:21
  I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
Through
Psalms 106:15
So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
leads to
- Numbers 11:31–34
  Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey…

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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