Job 16:9

His anger, hath torn and persecuted me, He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth, Mine adversary, hath sharpened his eyes for me.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

In Context

8And, having captured me, it hath served, as a witness; and so my wasting away hath risen up against me, in my face, it answereth.

10They have gaped upon me with their mouth, With reproach, have they smitten my cheek, Together, against me, have they closed their ranks.

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Cross References

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 13:24Wherefore, thy face, shouldst thou hide? Or count me, as an enemy to thee?

Job 18:4One tearing in pieces his own soul in his anger,—For thy sake, shall the earth be forsaken? or the rock be moved out of its place?

Psalms 35:16Amidst profane praters of perversion, have they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalms 50:22Understand this, I pray you, ye forgetters of GOD, Lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver:—

Lamentations 3:10A bear lying in wait, he is to me, a lion, in secret places;

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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