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Butאַךְnowעַתָּהhe has wearied me;הֶלְאָנִיyou have devastatedהֲשִׁמּוֹתָallכָּלmy community.עֲדָתִי
Job 16:7
Study it in the app“But now he has wearied me; you have devastated all my community.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 16:7, word by word
- he has wearied meהֶלְאָhela
wear out
To wear out someone else, to exhaust his patience.
Where else “hela” appears- you have devastatedהֲשִׁמּוֹתָhashimota
be desolate
To be left empty and ruined, or make it so.
Where else “hashimota” appears- my communityעֲדָתִadati
community
Israel gathered as one people; or a band of people.
Where else “adati” appears
Translation note
The Hebrew does not name who “has wearied me”; right away it turns to address him: “you have devastated.” “My community”: it can be understood as those of his household.
The context
6If I speak, my pain is not restrained; and if I cease, what goes away from me?
7 · This verse (above)
8And you have seized me: it has become a witness; and my leanness rises up against me, it testifies to my face.