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Job Chapter 16 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Job 16:8

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.
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BBE Job 16:8

It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
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DARBY Job 16:8

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

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.
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WBT Job 16:8

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.
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WEB Job 16:8

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
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YLT Job 16:8

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - And thou hast filled me with wrinkles. So St. Jerome, Professor Lee, Dr. Stanley Leathes, and others; but the generality of modern commentators prefer the rendering, "Thou hast bound me fast," i.e. deprived me of all power of resisting or moving (comp. Psalm 88:8, "I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth"). Which is a witness against me; i.e. a witness of thy displeasure, and so (as men suppose) of my guilt. And my leanness rising up in me heareth witness to my face; rather, my leanness rising up against me. This emaciation is taken as another witness of his extreme sinfulness.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) Witness against me.--As in Job 10:17. The wrinkles in his body, caused by the disease, were a witness against him; and certainly, in the eyes of his friends, they furnished unquestionable proof of his guilt.