Job 16:8 (KJV)

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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

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Cross-references

is a witness. Job 10:17 Ru 1:21 Eph 5:27

my leanness. Ps 106:15 Isa 10:16 Isa 24:16

And thou hast, etc.Some render, "thou has fettered me," as {kamat} signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.

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