Job 16:12

Previously, I was living peacefully, but he crushed me; it is as though he grabbed my neck and smashed me to pieces. It is as though [MET] he set me up like a target;

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

In Context

11It is as though God has handed me over to ungodly people and turned me over to the wicked [DOU].

13people are surrounding me and shooting arrows at me. His arrows pierce my kidneys and cause the bile from my liver to spill onto the ground, and God does not pity me at all.

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Cross References

Job 1:2He had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 4:10Even though wicked people may be very powerful like young lions, God will get rid of them [MET].

Job 7:12God, why do you watch closely what I am doing? Do you think that I am a dangerous sea monster?

Job 9:17He sends storms to batter me, and he bruises me many times ◄without any reason to do that/even though I am innocent►.

Job 23:16Almighty God has caused me [SYN] to feel terrified [DOU].

Job 29:18“At that time I thought, ‘Surely I will live securely, until I am very old [SIM], and I will die at home with my family.’

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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