Job 16:16 {17}
Good News Translation
I have cried until my face is red, and my eyes are swollen and circled with shadows,

New Revised Standard Version
My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids,

Contemporary English Version
My face is red with tears, and dark shadows circle my eyes,

New American Bible
My face is inflamed with weeping, darkness covers my eyes,

Douay-Rheims Bible
My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.

thy face

Psalm 6:6,7 I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears. . . .

Psalm 31:9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

Psalm 32:3 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

Psalm 69:3 I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

Psalm 102:3-5,9 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. . . .

Isaiah 52:14 As many have been astonished at thee, so shall his visage be inglorious among men, and his form among the sons of men.

Lamentations 1:16 Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with water: because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.

on my eyelids

Job 17:7 My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Jonah 2:1-10 Now the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah: and Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days and three nights. . . .

Mark 14:34 And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death. Stay you here and watch.

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
15I have sowed sackcloth upon my skin, and have covered my flesh with ashes. 16My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.17These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.…
Cross References
Job 16:20
My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Job 17:7
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

Job 24:17
If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.

Job 16:15
Top of Page
Top of Page