Job 16:12
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.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. Job calls his friends 'miserable comforters' and says he could speak as they do if their positions were reversed. He describes God as his adversary who has handed him over to the ungodly. Yet amid despair he appeals to his …
Other Translations
I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.
I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.
Cross References
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred …
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are …
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as …
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.