Job 16:7

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

you have devastated my entire household.

Job 33:8

Elihu Rejects Job’s Plea of Innocence

33:8 “Indeed, you have said in my hearing ² 

(I heard the sound of the words!):

[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”).

[33:8]  ² tn Heb “in my ears.”