Job 16:16

My face is foul with weeping -Wemyss, “swelled.” Noyes, “red.” Good, “tarnished.” Luther, “ist geschwollen” - is swelled. So Jerome. The Septuagint, strangely enough,ἡ γαστήρ μον συνκέκαυται, κ. τ. λ.hēgastērmousunkekautai, etc. “my belly is burned with weeping.” The Hebrew word (חמרchâmar) means to boil up, to ferment, to foam. Hence, it means to be red, and the word is often used in this sense in Arabic - from the idea of becoming heated or inflamed. Here it probably means either to be “swelled,” as any thing does that “ferments,” or to be “red” as if “heated” - the usual effect of weeping. The idea of being “defiled” is not in the word.