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Job 16:8

Job chapter 16 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

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.

Context

v.7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

v.8This passage

v.9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ruth 1:21

    I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

  • Ephesians 5:27

    that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

  • Psalms 109:24

    My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.

  • Job 19:20

    My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  • Isaiah 10:16

    Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning 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; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.