You produce new witnesses against me and multiply your anger towards me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.
Job 16:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You have shrivelled me up #– #it has become a witness; my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply your anger towards me. Hardships assault me, wave after wave.
My eyes have grown dim from grief, and my whole body has become but a shadow.
My skin and my flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.
Therefore the Lord God of Armies will inflict an emaciating disease on the well-fed of Assyria, and he will kindle a burning fire under its glory.
From the ends of the earth we hear songs: The Splendour of the Righteous One. But I said, ‘I waste away! I waste away! Woe is me.’ The treacherous act treacherously; the treacherous deal very treacherously.
He did this to present the church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and blameless.
I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has opposed me, and the Almighty has afflicted me? ’