Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face.
New American Standard Bible
And my
It testifies to my face.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
A Conservative Version
And thou have laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
“You have taken a firm hold on me and have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness [against me];
And my leanness [and infirmity] rises up [as evidence] against me,
It testifies to my face [about my guilt].
Bible in Basic English
It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
Darby Translation
Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face.
King James 2000
And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
Modern King James verseion
And You have plucked me, for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me, and it answers to my face.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And that thou hast filled me with wrinkles, my flesh is witness; and my leanness riseth up against me and beareth witness thereof in my face.
NET Bible
You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
New Heart English Bible
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
The Emphasized Bible
And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech
7 "God has certainly worn me out; you devastated my entire world. 8 You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me to my face. 9 His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.
Names
Cross References
Job 10:17
""You have brought new witnesses against me, you're even more angry with me you've brought fresh troops to attack me!
Ruth 1:21
I left here full, but the LORD brought me back empty. So why call me "Naomi'? After all, the LORD is against me, and the Almighty has broken me."
Job 19:20
I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."
Psalm 106:15
God granted them their request, but sent leanness into their lives.
Psalm 109:24
My knees give way from fasting, and my skin is lean, deprived of oil.
Isaiah 10:16
Therefore, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will send a wasting disease among Assyria's sturdy warriors, and under its glory a conflagration will be kindled, like a blazing bonfire.
Isaiah 24:16
From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise: "Glory to the Righteous One!' "But I say, "I am pining away, I'm pining away. How terrible things are for me! For treacherous people betray treacherous people are betraying with treachery!'"
Ephesians 5:27
and might present the church to himself in all its glory, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, but holy and without fault.