Job 16:16 Cross References - WEB

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,

⁷ My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

⁶ I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears. ⁷ My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

⁹ Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

³ I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

³ For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. ⁴ My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

³ The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

¹⁴ Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

¹⁶ “For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

¹ Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly. ² He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice. ³ For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me. ⁴ I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’ ⁵ The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. ⁶ I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. ⁷ “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple. ⁸ Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. ⁹ But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.” ¹⁰ Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

³⁴ He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch.”