Job 16:9
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
Job 18:4You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Psalms 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Lamentations 3:10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
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 →