King James Version
Job 16:7 in the King James Version says “But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.” — study this verse from Job chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.”
Job 16:7 · KJV
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? what: Heb. what goeth from me?
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“But now he hath made me weary”
H3811to tire; (figuratively) to be (or make) disgusted
“thou hast made desolate”
H8074to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e., devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all my company”
H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
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