Job 16:7

7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

Job 16:7 Meaning and Commentary

Job 16:7

But now he hath made me weary
Or "it hath made me weary" {u}, that is, "my grief", as it may be supplied from ( Job 16:6 ) ; or rather God, as appears from the next clause, and from the following verse, where he is manifestly addressed; who by afflicting him had made him weary of the world, and all things in it, even of his very life, ( Job 10:1 ) ; his afflictions were so heavy upon him, and pressed him so hard, that his life was a burden to him; they were heavier than the sand of the sea, and his strength was not equal to them; he could scarcely drag along, was ready to sink and lie down under the weight of them:

thou hast made desolate all my company,
or "congregation" F23; the congregation of saints that met at his house for religious worship, as some think, which now through his affliction was broke up, whom Eliphaz had called a congregation of hypocrites, ( Job 15:34 ) ; which passage Job may have respect unto; or rather his family, his children, which were taken away from him: the Jews say F24, ten persons in any place make a congregation; this was just the number of Job's children, seven sons and three daughters; or it may be he may have respect to his friends, that came to visit him, who were moved and stupefied as it were at the sight of him and his afflictions, as the word F25 is by some translated, and who were alienated from him; were not friendly to him, nor administered to him any comfort; so that they were as if he had none, or worse.


FOOTNOTES:

F21 "Dolor meus", V. L. so Aben Ezra & Cocceius.
F23 (ytde) "meam congregationem", Pagninus; "conventum meum", Montanus, Bolducius.
F24 Vid. Drusium in loc.
F25 "Stupefe isti", Tigurine version; so Jarchi.

Job 16:7 In-Context

5 I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
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