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Job 16:7

Job 16:7
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles,.... Not through old age, but through affliction, which had sunk his flesh, and made furrows in him, so that he looked older than he was, and was made old thereby…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

But now he hath made me weary - That is, God has exhausted my strength. This verse introduces a new description of his sufferings; and he begins with a statement of the woes that God had brought on…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 16:6-16

Job's complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

made me weary i. e. exhaustedme; and nowdescribes the new situation which he realizes. The second clause indicates in what way he had been wearied or exhausted, all his "company," his familiar…