But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
Parallel translations
- KJV But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
- BSB Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
- NKJV But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company.
- NASB “But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my group of loved ones.
- NLT “O God, you have ground me down and devastated my family.
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Quick answer
Job tells God directly that he has worn him out and devastated all his household. He attributes his ruin to God's hand.
Overview
Job turns from the friends to address God, lamenting his exhaustion and the destruction of his family and company. Though he does not understand why, he rightly traces all things to God's sovereignty rather than to chance. His willingness to bring his complaint straight to God, even in confusion, models honest faith that clings to the Lord amid loss.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Job 7:3so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- Job 1:15–19and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
- Job 3:17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
- Job 29:5–25when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,
- Prov 3:11–12My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
- Ps 6:6–7I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
- Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
- Isa 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
- Job 10:1“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Mic 6:13Therefore I also have struck you with a grievous wound. I have made you desolate because of your sins.
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