Job 16:12

American Standard Version (1901)

I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:20 : 20 If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
  • Lam 3:11-12 : 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
  • Ezek 29:7 : 7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
  • Matt 21:44 : 44 And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 who for my life laid down their own necks; unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles:
  • Job 9:17 : 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
  • Job 15:26 : 26 He runneth upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
  • Job 29:3 : 3 When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
  • Job 29:18-19 : 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand: 19 My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Job 1:2-3 : 2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
  • Job 3:26 : 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.
  • Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
  • Job 7:12 : 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 16:13-15
    3 verses
    85%

    13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

    15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

  • Lam 3:9-14
    6 verses
    82%

    9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

    10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

    12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

    13He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

    14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • Job 16:7-11
    5 verses
    82%

    7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

    8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

    9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

    11God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

  • Lam 3:3-7
    5 verses
    77%

    3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

    5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Lam 3:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

  • Job 19:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

    10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

    11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.

  • Ps 22:14-16
    3 verses
    76%

    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

    16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Job 30:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.

    12Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

  • 13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • 19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  • 6Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.

  • 17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

  • 15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

  • 14As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me] .

  • Job 31:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

    23For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

  • 6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

  • 19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • 11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.

  • 9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

  • 16For God hath made my heart faint, And the Almighty hath terrified me;

  • 16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • 8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • 10For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

  • 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.