Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 16:8

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8. filled . . . with wrinkles —Rather (as also the same Hebrew word in :- ; English Version, "cut down"), "thou hast fettered me, thy witness" ( besides cutting off my "band of witnesses," :- ), that is, hast disabled me by pains from properly attesting my innocence. But another "witness" arises against him, namely, his "leanness" or wretched state of body, construed by his friends into a proof of his guilt. The radical meaning of the Hebrew is "to draw together," whence flow the double meaning "to bind" or "fetter," and in Syriac, "to wrinkle." leanness —meaning also "lie"; implying it was a " false witness." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-job-16-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/job-16-8

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological