Job 16:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 35:16 : 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Lam 2:16 : 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].
  • Job 13:24 : 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
  • Job 18:4 : 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
  • Job 19:11 : 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as [one of] his enemies.
  • Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
  • Hos 6:1 : 1 ¶ Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
  • Job 10:16-17 : 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.
  • Acts 7:54 : 54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with [their] teeth.
  • Mic 7:8 : 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.
  • Lam 3:10 : 10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
  • Hos 5:14 : 14 For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him].
  • Job 13:27 : 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

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  • Job 16:10-14
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    10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

    11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

    12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

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

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

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

  • Job 16:7-8
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    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.

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

  • Lam 3:9-11
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    9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

    10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

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

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

    16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • 10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

  • 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; [and] they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • 13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

  • Lam 3:3-5
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    3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.

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

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

  • 7 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

  • Job 19:19-20
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    19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

    20 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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    7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

  • 19 But mine enemies [are] lively, [and] they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

  • 10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.

  • 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, [say they], and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, [saying], Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

  • 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

  • 20 My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.

  • 9 From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about.

  • 5 ¶ Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

  • 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].

  • Job 10:16-17
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    16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

    17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.

  • 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

  • 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

  • 10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

  • 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown [from] my head.

  • 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow [me] up: for [they be] many that fight against me, O thou most High.

  • 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  • 5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

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    7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

  • 13 From above 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.

  • 41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

  • Job 9:17-18
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    17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

    18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.