Job 16:12
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Cross References
Job 1:2And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 4:10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 7:12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou set a watch over me?
Job 9:17For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 23:16For God has made my heart faint, and the Almighty has terrified me,
Job 29:18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Matthew Henry on Job 16:7-17
Grievances of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the… Read the whole commentary →