Job 10:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 38:13 : 13 I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.
  • Lam 3:10 : 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
  • Job 5:9 : 9 Who does great things that can't be fathomed, Marvelous things without number;
  • Num 16:29-30 : 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Yahweh hasn't sent me. 30 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
  • Deut 28:59 : 59 then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
  • Hos 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore am I to them like a lion; Like a leopard I will lurk by the path. 8 I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, And will tear the covering of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
  • Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

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  • 17You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

  • Job 16:7-10
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    7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

    8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

    9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

    10They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck 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 answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

    21You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

    22You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

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

    15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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

  • Ps 71:20-21
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    20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, You will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

    21Increase my honor, And comfort me again.

  • 6That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin?

  • 12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, As it were 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 also put my feet in the stocks, And mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet:

  • 10Because of your indignation and your wrath, For you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

  • 3You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

  • 13They open their mouths wide against me, Lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Job 16:12-14
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    12I 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.

    13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

  • 24Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

  • Job 33:10-11
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    72%

    10Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:

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

  • 39"Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

  • 2I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.

  • Ps 41:10-12
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    72%

    10But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, That I may repay them.

    11By this I know that you delight in me, Because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.

    12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, And set me in your presence forever.

  • 16But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

  • 12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you put a guard over me?

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

  • 16For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

  • 36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

  • 17"But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

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

  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

  • 3Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?

  • 13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even to night will you make an end of me.

  • 9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

  • 15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

  • 10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • 10Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • 11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

  • 2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?