Job 16:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I was in wealth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, he hath all to shaken me, and set me as a marke for him selfe.

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  • Job 7:20 : 20 I haue offended, what shall I do vnto the, O thou preseruer of men? Why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised.
  • Lam 3:11-12 : 11 He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether. 12 He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at.
  • Ezek 29:7 : 7 When they toke hold of thee with their hand, thou brakest & rent all their shoulder: & when they leaned vpon thee, thou brakest and madest all their loynes to stande vpright.
  • Matt 21:44 : 44 And whosoeuer falleth on this stone, shalbe broken in peeces: but on whomsoeuer it falleth, it shal all to grynd him.
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 (Which haue for my lyfe layde downe their owne neckes: Unto whom, not onlye I geue thankes, but also all the Churches of the gentiles)
  • Job 9:17 : 17 He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause,
  • Job 15:26 : 26 He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiffe necke fighteth he against him.
  • Job 29:3 : 3 When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:
  • Job 29:18-19 : 18 Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest: and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sande. 19 For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death.
  • Job 1:2-3 : 2 And he had seuen sonnes and three daughters. 3 His substaunce also was seuen thousand sheepe, and three thousand camels, fiue hundred yoke of oxen, and fiue hundred shee asses, and a very great householde: so that he was one of the most principall men among all them of the east countrey.
  • Job 3:26 : 26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.
  • Job 4:10 : 10 The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out.
  • Job 7:12 : 12 Am I a sea or a whale fish, that thou kepest me so in prison?

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  • Job 16:13-15
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    85%

    13 His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.

    14 He hath geuen me one wounde vpon an other, and is fallen vpon me lyke a giaunt.

    15 I haue sowed a sackecloth vpon my skinne, and wallowed my head in the dust.

  • Lam 3:9-14
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    9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked.

    10 He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole.

    11 He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether.

    12 He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at.

    13 The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot, euen into my reynes.

    14 I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long.

  • Job 16:7-11
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    7 But now that God hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation.

    8 And that thou hast filled me with wrinckles my fleshe is recorde, and my leanenesse ryseth vp against me and beareth witnes thereof in my face.

    9 His wrath hath torne me he hateth me, & gnasheth vpon me with his teeth: myne enemie loketh fiercely vpon me with his eyes.

    10 They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me.

    11 God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes of the wicked.

  • Lam 3:3-7
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    3 Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me.

    4 My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised.

    5 He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile.

    6 He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.

    7 He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me.

  • Lam 1:13-14
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    13 From aboue hath he sent downe a fire into my bones, and it burneth them cruelly: he hath layde a net for my feete, and throwen me wyde open, he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournyng.

    14 The yoke of my transgressions is bounde fast to his hande, they are wrapped or writhen and come vp about my necke: he hath caused my strength to fayle, the Lorde hath deliuered me into those handes wherout I can not quyte my selfe.

  • Lam 3:16-17
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    16 He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust.

    17 He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.

  • Job 19:9-11
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    9 He hath spoyled me of myne honour, and taken the crowne away from my head.

    10 He hath destroyed me on euery side and I am gone: my hope hath he taken away as a tree pluckt vp by the roote.

    11 His wrath is kindled against me, he taketh me as though I were his enemie.

  • Ps 22:14-16
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    14 I am as it were into water resolued, and all my bones are out of ioynt: my heart also is like waxe melted in the middest of my bowels.

    15 My strength is dried vp like a potsheard, & my tongue cleaueth to my gummes: and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

    16 For dogges are come about me, the assemble of the wicked lay siege agaynst me: they haue pearced my handes and my feete, I may tell all my bones.

  • Job 30:11-12
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    11 Because God hath loosed my corde and humbled me, they haue loosed the bridle before me.

    12 Upon my right hande ryse the young men against me, they haue hurt my feete, treading vpon me as vpon the wayes of their destruction.

  • 13 I thought I woulde haue lyued vntyll the morowe, but he brused my bones lyke a lion: and in one day thou wylt make an ende of me.

  • 19 But I am as a meeke lambe, an oxe that is caryed away to be slayne, not knowing that they had deuised suche a counsell against me saying, We wyll destroy his meate with wood, and driue him out of the lande of the liuing, that his name shall neuer be thought vpon.

  • 6 Know this then, that it is God which hath ouerthrowe me, and hath compassed me with his net.

  • 17 He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause,

  • 15 But in mine aduersitie they reioysed and gathered them together: yea, the very abiectes came together against me, yer I wyst they rented me a peeces and ceassed not.

  • 14 They fell vpon me, as it had ben the breaking in of waters, and came in by heapes to destroy me.

  • Job 31:22-23
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    74%

    22 Then let myne arme fall fro my shoulder, and myne arme holes be broken from the bone.

    23 For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punishment of God, and knewe very well that I was not able to beare his burthen.

  • 6 He hath made me a byworde of the people, where as afore I was their ioy.

  • 19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.

  • 12 I became cleane forgotten as a dead man out of minde: I became like a broken vessell.

  • 11 He hath put my foote in the stockes, and looketh narowlye vnto all my pathes.

  • 9 O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:

  • 16 For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare.

  • 16 Therfore is my soule now powred out vpon me, and the dayes of my trouble haue taken hold vpon me.

  • 4 For the arrowes of the almightie are vpon me, the poyson therof hath drunke vp my spirite, and the terrible feares of God are set against me.

  • 8 I am feeble and sore smitten: I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart.

  • 10 Ueryly I hearde the euyll reportes of many, terrour was on euery side of me: complayne vpon hym say they, and we wyll tell his tale: Yea all myne owne companions, and suche as were conuersaunt with me, lay in wayte for my halting, saying: peraduenture he wylbe deceaued, and so shall we preuayle against hym, and be auenged of hym.

  • 10 Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande.