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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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Albert Barnes
On Job 16:8
18th Century
Theologian
And you have filled me with wrinkles - Noyes renders this, “and you have seized hold of me, which is a witness against me.” Wemyss,…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 16:8
19th Century
Bishop
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…
John Gill
On Job 16:8
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On Job 16:6–16
17th Century
Minister
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…