Job 16:14
He breaks me—breach on breach, || He runs on me as a mighty one.
Literal Standard Version
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 on my skin, || And have rolled my horn in the dust.
Cross References
Judges 15:8And he strikes them hip and thigh [with] a great striking, and goes down and dwells in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Psalms 42:7Deep is calling to deep || At the noise of Your waterspouts, || All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.
Joel 2:7They run as mighty ones, || As men of war they go up a wall, || And they each go in his own ways, || And they do not change 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 →