Bible Strands
Job 16:7
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses God during a prolonged season of unrelieved anguish, immediately after noting that both speech and silence fail to ease his suffering.
The words — עַתָּ֥ה ('a.Tah) translates to "now," and הֲ֝שִׁמּ֗וֹתָ (ha.shi.Mo.ta) means "you have devastated."
The thread — The motif of lost family and exhausted endurance appears in Job 1:15, where Sabeans destroy his household, Job 7:3, which describes allotted months of futility, and Job 3:17, which contrasts his current state with the weary finding rest.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge that divine action can strip away human support and leave the speaker in a state of exhausted isolation, demanding recognition of factual suffering without offering immediate resolution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Cross-references
- Job 7:3 So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me.
- Job 1:15 the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
- Job 7:16 I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Job 10:1 “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 29:5 when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,
- Psalms 6:6 I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Proverbs 3:11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
- Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
- Micah 6:13 Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins.