Ayub 16:7-8

16:7 Surely now he ¹  has worn me out,

you have devastated my entire household.

16:8 You have seized me, ² 

and it ³  has become a witness;

my leanness ⁴  has risen up against me

and testifies against me.

[16:7]  ¹ tn In poetic discourse there is often an abrupt change from person to another. See GKC 462 §144.p. Some take the subject of this verb to be God, others the pain (“surely now it has worn me out”).

[16:8]  ² tn The verb is קָמַט (qamat) which is used only here and in 22:16; it means “to seize; to grasp.” By God’s seizing him, Job means his afflictions.

[16:8]  ³ tn The subject is “my calamity.”

[16:8]  ⁴ tn The verb is used in Ps 109:24 to mean “to be lean”; and so “leanness” is accepted here for the noun by most. Otherwise the word is “lie, deceit.” Accordingly, some take it here as “my slanderer” or “my liar” (gives evidence against me).