Job 16:9
In his anger he has cast me down; he has gnashed his teeth upon me: the weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
8My falsehood has become a testimony, and has risen up against me: it has confronted me to my face.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.
Job 13:24Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?
Job 18:4Anger has possessed thee: for what if thou shouldest die; would the earth under heaven be desolate? or shall the mountains be overthrown from their foundations?
Lamentations 3:10he has troubled me, as a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me as a lion in secret places.
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 →