Job 16:12

World English Bible (2000)

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:20 : 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
  • Lam 3:11-12 : 11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate. 12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
  • Ezek 29:7 : 7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke, and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke, and paralyzed all of their thighs."
  • Matt 21:44 : 44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whoever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."
  • Rom 16:4 : 4 who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
  • Job 9:17 : 17 For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
  • Job 15:26 : 26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;
  • Job 29:3 : 3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
  • Job 29:18-19 : 18 Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand. 19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Job 1:2-3 : 2 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, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
  • Job 3:26 : 26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."
  • Job 4:10 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
  • Job 7:12 : 12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

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    10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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

    13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

    14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

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    5He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

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