Job 23:16

Contemporary English Version

makes me tremble with fear.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God has made my heart faint;the Almighty has terrified me.

Hebrew Names Version
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

King James Version
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

English Standard Version
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

New Century Version
God has made me afraid; the Almighty terrifies me.

New English Translation
Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Amplified Bible
"For God has made my heart faint, And the Almighty has terrified me,

New American Standard Bible
"It is God who has made my heart faint, And the Almighty who has terrified me,

World English Bible
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For God hath softened mine heart, & the Almightie hath troubled me.

Legacy Standard Bible
It is God who has made my heart faint,And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

Berean Standard Bible
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Complete Jewish Bible
God has undermined my courage; Shaddai frightens me.

Darby Translation
For God hath made my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me;

Easy-to-Read Version
The fear of God has made me lose my courage. God All-Powerful makes me afraid.

George Lamsa Translation
For God has troubled my heart, and my mind is confused:

Good News Translation
Almighty God has destroyed my courage. It is God, not the dark, that makes me afraid— even though the darkness has made me blind.

Lexham English Bible
Indeed, God has made my heart faint, and Shaddai has terrified me.

Literal Translation
For God makes my heart weak, and the Almighty troubles me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For in so moch as he is God, he maketh my herte soft: and seynge that he is Allmightie, he putteth me in feare.

American Standard Version
For God hath made my heart faint, And the Almighty hath terrified me;

Bible in Basic English
For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, God hath made my heart faint, and the Almighty hath affrighted me;

King James Version (1611)
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.

English Revised Version
For God hath made my heart faint, and the Almighty hath troubled me:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God hath maad neische myn herte, and Almyyti God hath disturblid me.

Update Bible Version
For God has made my heart faint, And the Almighty has terrified me;

Webster's Bible Translation
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

New King James Version
For God made my heart weak, And the Almighty terrifies me;

New Living Translation
God has made me sick at heart; the Almighty has terrified me.

New Life Bible
God has made my heart weak. The All-powerful has filled me with fear.

New Revised Standard
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, GOD, hath made timid my heart, and, the Almighty, hath put me in terror.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God hath softened my heart, and the Almighty hath troubled me.

Revised Standard Version
God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;

Young's Literal Translation
And God hath made my heart soft, And the Mighty hath troubled me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"It is God who has made my heart faint, And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

Contextual Overview

¹³ But he alone is God, and who can oppose him? God does as he pleases, ¹⁴ and he will do exactly what he intends with me. ¹⁵ Merely the thought of God All-Powerful ¹⁶ makes me tremble with fear. ¹⁷ God has covered me with darkness, but I refuse to be silent.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For God: Psalms 22:14, Isaiah 6:5, Isaiah 57:16

Almighty: Job 27:2, Ruth 1:20, Psalms 88:16, Joel 1:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:24 - and troubled Job 34:36 - My desire is that Job may be tried Psalms 55:5 - Fearfulness Psalms 77:3 - I remembered John 14:1 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 43:21
But when we stopped for the night, we each found in our grain sacks the exact amount we had paid. We have brought that money back,

Exodus 30:13
Each man over nineteen, whether rich or poor, must pay me the same amount of money, weighed according to the official standards.

Job 28:15
It is worth much more than silver or pure gold

Jeremiah 32:9
from Hanamel, and so I did. The price was seventeen pieces of silver, and I weighed out the full amount on a scale.

Ezekiel 45:12
The standard unit of weight will be the shekel. One shekel will equal twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will equal one mina.

Zechariah 11:12
I told them, "Pay me my wages, if you think you should; otherwise, forget it." So they handed me my wages, a measly thirty pieces of silver. Then the Lord said, "Throw the money into the treasury." So I threw the money into the treasury at the Lord 's temple.

Matthew 7:12
Treat others as you want them to treat you. This is what the Law and the Prophets are all about.

Romans 13:8
Let love be your only debt! If you love others, you have done all that the Law demands.

Philippians 4:8
Finally, my friends, keep your minds on whatever is true, pure, right, holy, friendly, and proper. Don't ever stop thinking about what is truly worthwhile and worthy of praise.

1 Thessalonians 4:6
You must not cheat any of the Lord's followers in matters of sex. Remember, we warned you that he punishes everyone who does such things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For God maketh my heart soft,.... Not tender as Josiah's was,

2 Kings 22:19, or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away the stony heart, and gives an heart of flesh; though Job had such an heart, and God made it so; but he means a weak, feeble, fearful heart, pressed and broken with afflictions, that could not endure and bear up under the mighty hand of God; but became as water, and melted like wax in the midst of him, and was ready to faint, and sink, and die away:

and the Almighty troubleth me; by afflicting him; afflictions cause trouble, and these are of God; or he "astonishes" a, amazes me, throws me into the utmost consternation, the reason of which follows.

a הבהילני "me attonitum reddidit", Vatablus; "consternavit me", Drusius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Michaelis; "externavit me", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For God maketh my heart soft - That is, “faint.” He takes away my strength; compare the notes at Isaiah 7:4. This effect was produced on Job by the contemplation of the eternal plan and the power of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 23:16. For God maketh my heart soft — Prostrates my strength, deprives me of courage, so that I sink beneath my burden, and I am troubled at the thought of the Almighty, the self-sufficient and eternal Being.