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

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ My face is red and swollen with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Common English Bible

¹⁶ My face is red from crying, and dark gloom hangs on my eyelids.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes.

Job 16:16 Cross References

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Job 17:7

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

Job 24:17

For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

Psalm 102:9

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

Psalm 116:3

The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.

Psalm 31:9

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also.

Psalm 32:3

While I kept silent, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 69:3

I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.

Isaiah 52:14

Just as there were many who were astonished at him —so marred was his appearance, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of mortals—

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.

Mark 14:34

And he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and keep awake.”