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Job 16

Job 16:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But now he hath made me weary
la'ah (Hebrew #3811)
to tire; (figuratively) to be (or make) disgusted
KJV usage: faint, grieve, lothe, (be, make) weary (selves).
Pronounce: law-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
: thou hast made desolate
shamem (Hebrew #8074)
to stun (or intransitively, grow numb), i.e. devastate or (figuratively) stupefy (both usually in a passive sense)
KJV usage: make amazed, be astonied, (be an) astonish(-ment), (be, bring into, unto, lay, lie, make) desolate(-ion, places), be destitute, destroy (self), (lay, lie, make) waste, wonder.
Pronounce: shaw-mame'
Origin: a primitive root
all my company
`edah (Hebrew #5712)
a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
KJV usage: assembly, company, congregation, multitude, people, swarm. Compare 5713.
Pronounce: ay-daw'
Origin: feminine of 5707 in the original sense of fixture
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Job 3:17• 17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest. (Job 3:17)
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Job 7:3,16• 3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
 16I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath. (Job 7:3,16)
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Job 10:1• 1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 10:1)
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Psa. 6:6‑7• 6I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
 7Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors. (Psa. 6:6‑7)
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Prov. 3:11‑12• 11My son, despise not the instruction of Jehovah, neither be weary of his chastisement;
 12for whom Jehovah loveth he chasteneth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. (Prov. 3:11‑12)
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Isa. 50:4• 4The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed. (Isa. 50:4)
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Mic. 6:13• 13Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee; I will make thee desolate because of thy sins. (Mic. 6:13)
hast made.
Job 1:15‑19• 15and they of Sheba fell upon them and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.
 16While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.
 17While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee.
 18While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their brother, the firstborn;
 19and behold, there came a great wind from over the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they died; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee. (Job 1:15‑19)
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Job 29:5‑25• 5When the Almighty was yet with me, my young men round about me;
 6When my steps were bathed in milk, and the rock poured out beside me rivers of oil! …
 7When I went out to the gate by the city, when I prepared my seat on the broadway,
 8The young men saw me, and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up;
 9Princes refrained from talking, and laid the hand on their mouth;
 10The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to their palate.
 11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me;
 12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
 13The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
 16I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
 17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
 18And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
 19My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;
 20My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.
 21Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:
 22After my words they spoke not again, and my speech dropped upon them;
 23And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
 24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.
 25I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners. (Job 29:5‑25)
• “Thou hast made desolate all my company,” or household. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But now he hath made me weary; … thou hast made desolate all my familyd;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "assembly," "company."