Job 16:12

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:20 : 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against 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 desote. 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 rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
  • Matt 21:44 : 44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 Who have 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, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
  • Job 29:3 : 3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when 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 was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, 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 men of the east.
  • Job 3:26 : 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
  • 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 whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 16:13-15
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    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 defiled my horn in the dust.

  • Lam 3:9-14
    6 verses
    82%

    9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

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

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

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

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

    14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

  • Job 16:7-11
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    7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

    8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

    9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

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

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

  • Lam 3:3-7
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    77%

    3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me 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 set me in dark pces, as they that be dead of old.

    7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13From 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 desote and faint all the day.

    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

  • Lam 3:16-17
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    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
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    76%

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

    10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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

  • 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 in the midst of my bowels.

    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: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Job 30:11-12
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    75%

    11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

    12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

  • Isa 38:13
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    13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Jer 11:19
    75%

    19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought 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.

  • Job 19:6
    75%

    6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

  • Job 9:17
    75%

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

  • Ps 35:15
    74%

    15But 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:

  • Job 30:14
    74%

    14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • Job 31:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

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

    23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

  • Job 17:6
    74%

    6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  • Job 30:19
    74%

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

  • Ps 31:12
    73%

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

  • Job 33:11
    73%

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

  • Job 6:9
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    9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

  • Job 23:16
    73%

    16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

  • Job 30:16
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    16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • Job 6:4
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    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • Ps 38:8
    73%

    8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • Jer 20:10
    73%

    10For 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.

  • Ps 39:10
    73%

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