Job 16:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou hast filled me with wrinkles By consuming my flesh and reducing my body; which is a witness Of the reality and greatness, and just cause of my sorrows. Or, which is made a witness; that is, produced by my friends as a proof of God's anger and my hypocrisy and impiety. And my leanness rising up in me Or, against me; as witnesses are wont to rise and stand up against a guilty person to accuse him; beareth witness to my face Namely, openly and evidently, as witnesses accuse a person to his face; or, so that any, who look on my face, may plainly discern it. Bishop Patrick's paraphrase is, “The furrows in my face (which is not old) show the greatness of my affliction, which is extremely augmented by him who rises up with false accusations to take away mine honour, as this consumption will do my life.”