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You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
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The Body as a Witness
Commentators explain that Job's 'wrinkles' and 'leanness' are the physical results of his agonizing disease. He feels that God has 'seized' or 'bound' him, and his wasted body has become the primary piece of evidence his friends use to accuse him of secret sin. In their eyes, his suffering testifies against his character.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And you have filled me with wrinkles - Noyes renders this, “and you have seized hold of me, which is a witness against me.” Wemyss,…
19th Century
Anglican
Witness against me. —As in Job 10:17. The wrinkles in his body, caused by the disease, were a witness against him; and certainly, in the e…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you have filled me with wrinkles Not through old age, but through affliction, which had sunk his flesh, and made…
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Here is a sorrowful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, whe…
13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had spoken harshly against Job in his answer, so Job begins his speech by accusing him of providing unfitting consolation. First, because h…
