Job 16:14
He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
In Context
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
Cross References
Judges 15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of thy waterfalls. All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
Joel 2:7They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like men of war, and they march each one on his ways. And they do not break their ranks.
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 →