Job 16:11

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

In Context

10Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

12I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

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Cross References

Job 1:13And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

Psalms 7:14\7:13\He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

Psalms 31:8\31:7\I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

Romans 11:32For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

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 →

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