Job 16:13
His archers surround me. His arrows pierce my kidneys without mercy. He pours out my gall on the ground.
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In Context
14Like a wall he breaks me down, breach upon breach, rushing at me like a warrior.
Cross References
Genesis 49:23The archers viciously attacked him; they shot their arrows at him with hate.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; their poison saps my spirit. God's terrors are lined up against me.
Job 19:27I myself will see him—with my own eyes, and not those of someone else! The thought overcomes me!
Psalms 7:12If people do not change their minds, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent and strung his bow.
Lamentations 3:13He shot me in my kidneys with his arrows.
Romans 8:32God, who did not hold back his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, won't he also freely give us everything?
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 →