8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.


In Context

5 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

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 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.

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 Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me:] and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:8You have bound me-and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:8My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:8And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:8Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:8And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:8And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:8And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.