Job 16:13

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

In Context

12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:23The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 19:27I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

Psalms 7:12If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

Lamentations 3:13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

Romans 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give 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 →

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