Job 23:16

Literal Standard Version

And God has made my heart soft, || And the Mighty has troubled me.

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.

Contemporary English Version
makes me tremble with fear.

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

¹³And He [is] in one [mind], || And who turns Him back? And His soul has desired—and He does [it]. ¹⁴For He completes my portion, || And many such things [are] with Him. ¹⁵Therefore, I am troubled at His presence, I consider, and am afraid of Him. ¹⁶And God has made my heart soft, || And the Mighty has troubled me.¹⁷For I have not been cut off before darkness, || And before me He covered thick darkness."

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 23:15
"My lord, hear me: the land—four hundred shekels of silver; between me and you, what [is] it? Bury your dead."

Genesis 43:21
and it comes to pass, when we have come to the lodging-place, and open our bags, that behold, each one's money [is] in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand;

Exodus 30:13
This they give, everyone passing over to those numbered, half a shekel, by the shekel of the holy place (the shekel [is] twenty gerahs); half a shekel [is] the raised-offering to YHWH;

Job 28:15
Gold is not given for it, || Nor is silver weighed—its price.

Jeremiah 32:9
and I buy the field that [is] in Anathoth from Hanameel, my uncle's son, and I weigh the money to him—seventeen shekels of silver.

Ezekiel 45:12
And the shekel [is] twenty gerah: twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels—is your maneh.

Zechariah 11:12
And I say to them: "If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, refrain"; and they weigh out my hire—thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 7:12
All things, therefore, whatever you may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 13:8
To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other—he has fulfilled law,

Philippians 4:8
As to the rest, brothers, as many things as are true, as many as [are] revered, as many as [are] righteous, as many as [are] pure, as many as [are] lovely, as many as [are] of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, think on these 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.