Job 16:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My face is foul with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Common English Bible My face is red from crying, and dark gloom hangs on my eyelids. Catholic Public Domain Version I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, and I have covered my body with ashes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes. |
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
and saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.