Job 16:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:17 : 17 You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.
  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
  • Ruth 1:21 : 21 I left here full, but the LORD has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me‘Naomi,’ seeing that the LORD has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?”
  • Ps 106:15 : 15 He granted their request, then struck them with a disease.
  • Ps 109:24 : 24 I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.
  • Isa 10:16 : 16 For this reason the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, will make his healthy ones emaciated. His majestic glory will go up in smoke.
  • Isa 24:16 : 16 From the ends of the earth we hear songs– the Just One is majestic. But I say,“I’m wasting away! I’m wasting away! I’m doomed! Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!”
  • Eph 5:27 : 27 so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

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