King James Version
Job 16:8 in the King James Version says “And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to...” — study this verse from Job chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Job 16:8 · KJV
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.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“which is a witness”
H5707concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e., prince
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“rising up”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“against me and my leanness”
H3585literally a failure of flesh, i.e., emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy
“to my face”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“in me beareth witness”
H6030properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,
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