Job 16:12 · KJV
“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.”
— Job 16:12
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. {hath...: Heb. hath shut me up}
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Job 16 — Context
They 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. {hath...: Heb. hath shut me up}
12I 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.
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.
Cross References
Lamentations 3:11-12
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Job 7:20
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?
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Psalms 44:19
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Job 29:3
When his candle shined upon my head, {and when} by his light I walked {through} darkness; {candle: or, lamp}
Matthew 21:44
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Job 15:26
He runneth upon him, {even} on {his} neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: