Job 10:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous upon me.

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  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me.
  • Lam 3:10 : 10 He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.
  • Job 5:9 : 9 Who does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
  • Num 16:29-30 : 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they are visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD has not sent me. 30 But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the pit; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
  • Deut 28:59 : 59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.
  • Hos 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way I will observe them: 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion has roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken, who can but prophesy?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 17You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

  • Job 16:7-10
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    7But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

  • Job 30:20-22
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    20I cry to You, and You do not hear me: I stand up, and You regard me not.

    21You have become cruel to me: with Your strong hand You oppose Yourself against me.

    22You lift me up to the wind; You cause me to ride upon it, and dissolve my substance.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    14If I sin, then You mark me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

    15If I am wicked, woe to me; and if I am righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see my affliction;

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Ps 71:20-21
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    20You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

    21You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

  • 6That You inquire after my iniquity and search after my sin?

  • 12Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Job 13:26-27
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    26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

    27You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a mark upon the soles of my feet.

  • 10Because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have lifted me up and cast me down.

  • 3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.

  • 13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Job 16:12-14
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    12I was at ease, but he has broken me apart; he has also seized me by my neck and shaken me to pieces and set me up as his target.

    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.

  • 24Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • Job 33:10-11
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    10Behold, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;

    11He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

  • 39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

  • 2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

  • Ps 41:10-12
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    10But You, O LORD, be merciful to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.

    11By this I know that You favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

    12And as for me, You uphold me in my integrity and set me before Your face forever.

  • 16For now You number my steps; do You not watch over my sin?

  • 12Am I a sea, or a monster, that you set a watch over me?

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    2Lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • 16For I said, 'Hear me, lest otherwise they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.'

  • 36You have enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet did not slip.

  • 17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • 8Will you also annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, they say, and we will report it. All my familiar friends watched for my faltering, saying, Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

  • 3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 13I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • 9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

  • 15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

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

  • 10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • 11He has also kindled His wrath against me and counts me as one of His enemies.

  • 2For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?