Job 16:12
I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
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- Job 7:20 : 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?
- Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
- Lam 3:11-12 : 11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste. 12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
- Ezek 29:7 : 7 When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.
- Matt 21:44 : 44 Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.
- Rom 16:4 : 4 Who for my life put their necks in danger; to whom not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are in debt:
- Job 9:17 : 17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.
- Job 15:26 : 26 Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,
- Job 29:3 : 3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
- Job 29:18-19 : 18 Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number; 19 My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,
- Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
- Job 1:2-3 : 2 And he had seven sons and three daughters. 3 And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.
- Job 3:26 : 26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
- Job 4:10 : 10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- Job 7:12 : 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
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- Job 16:13-153 verses85%
13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.
- Lam 3:9-146 verses82%
9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
10 He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
12 With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
- Job 16:7-115 verses82%
7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.
11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
- Lam 3:3-75 verses77%
3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
- Lam 1:13-142 verses77%
13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.
- Lam 3:16-172 verses77%
16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
- Job 19:9-113 verses76%
9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.
- Ps 22:14-163 verses76%
14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
- Job 30:11-122 verses75%
11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.
12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:
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13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.
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19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
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6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
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17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.
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15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.
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14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.
- Job 31:22-232 verses74%
22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.
23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.
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6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
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19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
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12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.
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11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
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9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
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16 For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.
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16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:
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4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
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8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
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10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
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10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.