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
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him …
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as …