Job 16:10
They gape for me with their mouths; In scorn they smite me on the cheek; With one consent they assemble against me.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11God hath given me a prey to the unrighteous, And delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Cross References
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint; My heart is become like wax; It melteth in my bosom.
Psalms 35:15But at my fall they rejoice, and gather themselves together; Revilers whom I know not assemble themselves against me; They tear me without ceasing.
Psalms 56:6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they watch my steps, Lying in wait for my life.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, And my cheeks to them that pluck the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Micah 5:1Yet now gather yourselves in troops, O people of troops! They lay siege against us; With a rod they smite the cheek of the judge of Israel.
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 →