Job 16:11

God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

In Context

10They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

12At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

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Cross References

Job 1:13And the day is, that his sons and his daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born.

Psalms 7:14Lo, he travaileth [with] iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

Psalms 31:8And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

Romans 11:32for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

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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