Job 16:13

His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

In Context

12At ease, was I when he shattered me, Yea he seized me by my neck, and dashed me in pieces, then set me up for himself as a mark:

14He made a breach in me, breach upon breach, He ran upon me, like a mighty man.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:23So they attack him and have shot,—So they enclose him, do the masters of arrows.

Job 6:4For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

Job 19:27Whom, I myself, shall see, on my side, and, mine own eyes, [shall] have looked upon, and not those of a stranger. Exhausted are my deepest desires in my bosom!

Psalms 7:12If he turn not, his sword, will he whet,—his bow, hath he bent, and made ready:

Lamentations 3:13He hath caused to enter my reins, the sons of his quiver;

Romans 8:32He, at least, who his own Son did not spare, but in behalf of us all delivered him up, how shall he not also, with him, all things upon us in favour bestow?

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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