Job 16:16

My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;

My face {H6440} is foul {H2560} with weeping {H1065}, and on my eyelids {H6079} is the shadow of death {H6757};

my face is red from crying, and on my eyelids is a death-dark shadow.

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Mark 14:34 (4 votes)

    And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.

  • Psalms 69:3 (3 votes)

    I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • Psalms 32:3 (3 votes)

    When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  • Psalms 31:9 (3 votes)

    ¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

  • Isaiah 52:14 (3 votes)

    As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

  • Psalms 102:3 (3 votes)

    For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

  • Psalms 102:5 (3 votes)

    By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.