Job 16:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:4 : 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.
  • Job 20:25 : 25 He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.
  • Lam 2:11 : 11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
  • Ezek 5:11 : 11 For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?
  • 2 Pet 2:5 : 5 And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;
  • Job 6:10 : 10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.
  • Job 19:27 : 27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
  • Gen 49:23 : 23 He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:
  • Deut 29:20 : 20 The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.
  • Ps 7:12-13 : 12 If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready. 13 He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

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  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • 20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

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    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

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  • 27 My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.

  • 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.

  • 7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • 4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • 7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

  • 16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

  • 13 I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

  • 2 And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;