Job 16:10
They have gaped on me with their mouth, || In reproach they have struck my cheeks, || Together they set themselves against me.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
11God shuts me up to the perverse, || And turns me over to the hands of the wicked.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:23And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah comes near and strikes Micaiah on the cheek, and says, “Where [is] this—the way the spirit [from] YHWH passed over from me to speak with you?”
Psalms 22:14I have been poured out as waters, || And all my bones have separated themselves, || My heart has been like wax, || It is melted in the midst of My bowels.
Psalms 35:15And they have rejoiced in my halting, || And have been gathered together, || The strikers were gathered against me, || And I have not known, || They have torn, and they have not ceased;
Psalms 56:6They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, || When they have expected my soul.
Isaiah 50:6I have given My back to those striking, || And My cheeks to those plucking out, || I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
Micah 5:1Now gather yourself together, O daughter of troops, || He has laid a siege against us, || They strike [the] judge of Israel on the cheek with a rod.
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 →