Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
In Context
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
Cross References
Judges 15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Psalms 42:7(42-8) Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.
Joel 2:7They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like men of war; and they move on every one in his ways, and they entangle not their paths.
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 →