Job 16:13
When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
12For the Lord has delivered me into the hands of unrighteous men, and thrown me upon the ungodly.
Cross References
Genesis 49:23Against whom men taking evil counsel reproached him, and the archers pressed hard upon him.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.
Job 19:27which I am conscious of in myself, which my eye has seen, and not another, but all have been fulfilled to me in my bosom.
Psalms 7:12If you⌃ will not repent, he will furbish his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. 1
Lamentations 3:13He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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 →