Job 16:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

I 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.

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  • Job 7:20 : 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.
  • Lam 3:11-12 : 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate. 12 He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.
  • Ezek 29:7 : 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to be at a stand.
  • Matt 21:44 : 44 And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 Who have risked their own necks for my life; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
  • Job 9:17 : 17 For He crushes me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
  • Job 15:26 : 26 He runs upon Him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his shields.
  • Job 29:3 : 3 When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;
  • Job 29:18-19 : 18 Then I said, 'I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.' 19 My root spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Job 1:2-3 : 2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters. 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
  • Job 3:26 : 26 I was not in safety, nor had I rest, nor 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 monster, that you set a watch over me?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 16:13-15
    3 verses
    85%

    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.

    15I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

  • Lam 3:9-14
    6 verses
    82%

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

    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.

    12He has bent His bow and set me as a target for the arrow.

    13He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my innermost parts.

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

  • Job 16:7-11
    5 verses
    82%

    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.

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

  • Lam 3:3-7
    5 verses
    77%

    3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

    5He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

  • Lam 1:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

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

  • Lam 3:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 19:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

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

    10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and my hope He has removed like a tree.

    11He has also kindled His wrath against me and counts me 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 within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

    16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Job 30:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11Because He has 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
    75%

    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.

  • Jer 11:19
    75%

    19But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.

  • Job 19:6
    75%

    6Know now that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.

  • Job 9:17
    75%

    17For He crushes me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

  • Ps 35:15
    74%

    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:

  • 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 my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken at the bone.

    23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.

  • Job 17:6
    74%

    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • Job 30:19
    74%

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have 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 puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

  • Job 6:9
    73%

    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 makes my heart faint, and the Almighty troubles me.

  • Job 30:16
    73%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • Job 6:4
    73%

    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves against me.

  • Ps 38:8
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    8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

  • Jer 20:10
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 39:10
    73%

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