Job 16:9

His anger has torn, and He hates me, || He has gnashed at me with His teeth, || My adversary sharpens His eyes for me.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

In Context

8And You loathe me, || For it has been a witness, || And my failure rises up against me, || It testifies in my face.

10They have gaped on me with their mouth, || In reproach they have struck my cheeks, || Together they set themselves against me.

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Cross References

Job 6:4For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, || Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!

Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face? And reckon me for an enemy to You?

Job 18:4He is tearing himself in his anger. Is earth forsaken for your sake? And is a rock removed from its place?

Psalms 35:16With profane ones, mockers in feasts, || Gnashing their teeth against me.

Psalms 50:22Now understand this, || You who are forgetting God, || Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

Lamentations 3:10A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding places.

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 →

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