My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 16:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But now [God] has taken away my strength. You [O Lord] have made desolate all my family and associates. American Standard Version (1901) But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company. Common English Bible Now God has surely worn me out. You have destroyed my entire group, Catholic Public Domain Version But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me. |
My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.
Is it not that I have no help in me, And that effectual working is driven quite from me?
I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity
So am I made to possess months of vanity, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
The Lord GODhath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I should know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.
Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.