Job 16:13
I that was formerly so wealthy, am all on a sudden broken to pieces: he hath taken me by my neck, he hath broken me, and hath set me up to be his mark.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Cross References
Genesis 49:23Joseph is a growing son, a growing son and comely to behold; the daughters run to and fro upon the wall.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
Job 19:27Whom I myself shall see, and my eyes shall behold, and not another: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
Psalms 7:12God is a just judge, strong and patient: is he angry every day?
Lamentations 3:13He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
Romans 8:32He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?
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 →