Job 16:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; my leanness has risen up against me, and it testifies to my face.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You have laid firm hold on me and have shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness [and wretched state of body] are further evidence [against me]; [they] testify to my face.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

seized me, which became grounds for an accusation. My leanness rises to bear witness against me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But now my sorrow hath oppressed me: and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

Job 16:8 Cross References

Job 10:17

You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.

Job 17:7

My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

Job 19:20

My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 33:21

Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.

Psalm 106:15

he gave them what they asked but sent a wasting disease among them.

Psalm 109:24

My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

Isaiah 10:16

Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I pine away; I pine away. Woe is me! For the treacherous deal treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

Ephesians 5:27

so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, so that she may be holy and without blemish.

Ruth 1:21

I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty; why call me Naomi when the Lord has dealt harshly with me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”