Job 16:7
Good News Translation
You have worn me out, God; you have let my family be killed.

New Revised Standard Version
Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.

Contemporary English Version
God has worn me down and destroyed my family;

New American Bible
But now he has exhausted me; you have stunned all my companions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.

he hath

Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.

Job 7:3,16 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. . . .

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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. . . .

Proverbs 3:11,12 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself. . . .

Isaiah 50:4 The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.

Micah 6:13 And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.

hast made

Job 1:15-19 And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. . . .

Job 29:5 When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

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Context
Job Decries his Comforters
6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you. 7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.…
Cross References
Job 7:3
So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.

Job 16:20
My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me.

Job 16:6
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