Job 16:9

His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

Young's Literal Translation

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 Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

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

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Cross References

Job 6:4For arrows of the Mighty [are] with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves [for] me!

Job 13:24Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

Job 18:4(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

Psalms 35:16With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

Psalms 50:22Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

Lamentations 3:10A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, A lion in secret hiding-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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