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Job 16:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

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he hath.

Job 3:17• ¹⁷There the wicked cease from raging,{HR}And there the weary are at rest; (Job 3:17)

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Job 7:3,16• ³So I am made to inherit months of wretchedness,{HR}And nights of distress are appointed to me.
¹⁶I loathe it: let me alone; my days are vanity. (Job 7:3,16)

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Job 10:1• ¹My soul is weary of my life;{HR}I will give way to my plaint,{HR}I will speak in the bitterness of my soul, (Job 10:1)

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Psa. 6:6‑7• ⁶I am weary with my sighing;{HR}All the night make I my bed to swim;{HR}I cause my couch to flow down with my tears.
⁷Mine eye is consumed through grief,{HR}It has grown old because of all mine adversaries. (Psa. 6:6‑7)

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Prov. 3:11‑12• ¹¹My son, despise not the instruction of Jehovah,{HR}Neither be weary of his chastisement;
¹²For whom Jehovah loveth he chasteneth,{HR}Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. (Prov. 3:11‑12)

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Isa. 50:4• ⁴The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to speak a word in season to the weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed. (Isa. 50:4)

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Mic. 6:13• ¹³Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee; I will make thee desolate because of thy sins. (Mic. 6:13)

hast made.

Job 1:15‑19• ¹⁵and [the] Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; and they have smitten the young men with the edge of the sword: and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
¹⁶While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
¹⁷While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, and they have smitten the young men with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
¹⁸While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
¹⁹and, lo, there came a great wind from beyond the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. (Job 1:15‑19)

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Job 29:5‑25• ⁵While the Almighty [was] still with me,{HR}My young ones around me;
⁶When I washed my steps in cream,{HR}And the rock alongside me [poured] rivers of oil;
⁷When I went out to the gate by the city,{HR}In the open place I established my seat;
⁸Youths saw me and hid themselves{HR}And the aged rose — stood up,
⁹Princes refrained from words{HR}And laid the hand on their mouth,
¹⁰The voice of nobles was arrested,{HR}And their tongue cleaved to their palate.
¹¹For the ear heard and praised me,{HR}And an eye saw and testified to me.
¹²For I delivered the poor that cried,{HR}And the fatherless that had no helper.
¹³The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
¹⁴Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity.
¹⁵I was eyes to the blind,{HR}And feet [was] I to the lame,
¹⁶A father to the needy,{HR}And the cause I knew not I searched.
¹⁷And I broke the jaw of the wicked,{HR}And flung the prey out of his teeth.
¹⁸And I said, With my nest I shall expire,{HR}And as sand shall multiply my days.
¹⁹My root is open toward the waters,{HR}And dew lodgeth all night on my branches.
²⁰Mine honour remaineth fresh with me,{HR}And my bow is renewed in my hand.
²¹They hearken to me, they wait,{HR}And are silent for my counsel.{HR}After my word they repeat not,
²²And my discourse droppeth on them,{HR}And they wait for me as rain,
²³And their mouth they open wide [as] for the latter rain.
²⁴I laugh on them when they have no confidence,{HR}And the light of my face they cannot cast down.
²⁵I choose their way for them, and sit head,{HR}And dwelt as king in the troop, the comforter of mourners. (Job 29:5‑25)

• “Thou hast made desolate all my company,” or household. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

But now he hath made me weary; … thou hast made desolate all my familyd;

JND Translation Notes

Or "assembly," "company."

W. Kelly Translation

Surely now he hath exhausted me,{HR}Thou hast desolated all my company, and bound me;