Parallel Verses
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.
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.
International Standard Version
You've arrested me, making me testify against myself! My leanness rises up to attack me, accusing me 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.
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 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company. 8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. 9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
Names
Cross References
Job 10:17
You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
Ruth 1:21
I went out full, and the LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has testified against me, and Shaddai has afflicted me?"
Job 19:20
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 106:15
He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
Psalm 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
Isaiah 10:16
Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
Isaiah 24:16
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous. But I said, "I pine away. I pine away. Woe is me." The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
Ephesians 5:27
that he might present the church to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.