Job 16:10
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
11God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:23Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did the LORD’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
Psalms 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
Psalms 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
Micah 5:1Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
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 →