Job 16:8
World English Bible (WEB)
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
In context
6 “Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
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.
10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
Job 16:8 in every translation
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
- ASV 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.
- YLT Young's 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.
- DBY 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.
- WBS Webster Bible
- 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.