Job 16:14
He breaketh me down with breach upon breach; he runneth against me like a mighty man.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
In Context
15Sackcloth have I sewed upon my skin, and my horn I roll in the dust.
Cross References
Judges 15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and tarried in the cleft of the rock 'Etam.
Psalms 42:7(42:8) Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: all thy waves and thy billows have passed over me.
Joel 2:7Like mighty men do they run; like men of war they climb up a wall; and they march every one on his own ways, and they turn not aside on 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 →