Job 16:11

God has handed me over to evil people; he has thrown me into their hands.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

10People stare at me with their mouths wide open, they slap me on my cheeks to mock me, they crowd around me to attack me.

12I was living in peace and he smashed me to pieces. He grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target.

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Cross References

Job 1:13The day came when while Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

Psalms 7:14See how the wicked conceive evil! They are pregnant with trouble. They give birth to dishonesty.

Psalms 31:8You haven't handed me over to my enemies; you have set me free.

Romans 11:32For God treated everyone as prisoners because of their disobedience so that he could be merciful to everyone.

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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