Job 16:14
He breaketh me — breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
In Context
15Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn.
Cross References
Judges 15:8And he smiteth them hip and thigh — a great smiting, and goeth down and dwelleth in the cleft of the rock Etam.
Psalms 42:7Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.
Joel 2:7As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths.
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 →