Job 16:16 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids, 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. |
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away from grief, my soul and body also.
While I kept silence, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
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—
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.
And he said to them, “I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and keep awake.”