Job 16:12

When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

In Context

11For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.

13They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground.

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Cross References

Job 1:2And he had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 4:10The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

Job 7:12Am I a sea, or a serpent, that thou hast set a watch over me?

Job 9:17Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.

Job 23:16But the Lord has softened my heart, and the Almighty has troubled me.

Job 29:18And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.

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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