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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ seized me, which became grounds for an accusation. My leanness rises to bear witness against me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ 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?”