Job 16:8New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— 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.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— 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.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— 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.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And hast made me full of wrinkles which is a witnesse thereof, and my leannes ryseth vp in me, testifying the same in my face.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And thou hast filled mee with wrinckles, [which] is a witnesse [against me]: and my leannesse rising vp in me, beareth witnesse to my face.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Thou didst appoint me and I became a witness, but my lies have testified against me; and I spoke in his presence.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— 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. |
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,
7059 {7059} Primeקָמַטqamat{kaw-mat'}
A primitive root; to pluck, that is, destroy.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
[ which] is
x1961 (1961) Complementהָיָהhayah{haw-yaw'}
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary).
a witness
5707 {5707} Primeעֵד`ed{ayd}
From H5749 contracted; concretely a witness; abstractly testimony; specifically a recorder, that is, prince.
[ against me]: and my leanness
3585 {3585} Primeכַּחַשׁkachash{kakh'-ash}
From H3584; literally a failure of flesh, that is, emaciation; figuratively hypocrisy.
rising up
6965 {6965} Primeקוּםquwm{koom}
A primitive root; to rise (in various applications, literally, figuratively, intensively and causatively).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
in me beareth witness
6030 {6030} Primeעָנָה`anah{aw-naw'}
A primitive root; properly to eye or (generally) to heed, that is, pay attention; by implication to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
to my face.
6440 {6440} Primeפָּנִיםpaniym{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun ( פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ( before, etc.). |
Job 16:8
_ _ filled ... with wrinkles — Rather (as also the same Hebrew word in Job 22:16; English Version, “cut down”), “thou hast fettered me, thy witness” (besides cutting off my “band of witnesses,” Job 16:7), that is, hast disabled me by pains from properly attesting my innocence. 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.” |
Job 16:8
And thou hast filled me with (i) wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
(i) In token of sorrow and grief. |
- And thou hast:
- etc. Some render, "thou has fettered me," as kamat signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.
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- is a witness:
Job 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.
Ruth 1:21 I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?
Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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- my leanness:
Psalms 106:15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Isaiah 10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
Isaiah 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
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