Job 16:13
people 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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Genesis 49:23Their enemies will attack them fiercely, and shoot at them with bows and arrows and pursue them.
Job 6:4It is as though Almighty God has shot me with arrows. It is as though those arrows had poison on their tips, and that poison has gone into my spirit. The things that God has done to me have terrified me.
Job 19:27I will see him myself; I will see him with my own eyes! I am overwhelmed as I think about that!
Psalms 7:12Whenever your enemies do not ◄repent/change their behavior►, it is as though [MET] you sharpen your sword and put a string on your bow to get ready to kill them.
Lamentations 3:13It is as though he shot his arrows deep into my body.
Romans 8:32God did not spare even his very own Son. Instead, he turned him over to others to cruelly kill him in order that all we who believe in him may benefit from his dying for us. Therefore, because God did that, ◄he will also certainly give us freely everything that we need to live for him, in addition to giving us Christ./will he not also certainly give us freely everything that we need to live for him, in addition to giving us Christ?► [RHQ]
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 →