Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Job 16:14 in other translations
| BSB | He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior. |
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| WEB | He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant. |
| ASV | He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant. |
| YLT | He breaketh me--breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. |
| DARBY | He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man. |
| BBE | I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. |
| Webster | He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. |
What does Job 16:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 16:6-16
Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows…
Job 16:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 16:14
- Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- Joel 2:7
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
- Judges 15:8
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
- Lamentations 3:3-5
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
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Context
- Job 16:13
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
- Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- Job 16:15
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
Job 16:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Quebrantóme de quebranto sobre quebranto; corrió contra mí como un gigante. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il fait brèche en moi, brèche sur brèche; il court sur moi comme un homme fort. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er durchbrach mich, Bruch auf Bruch; er rannte wider mich, wie ein Held. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Circumdedit me lanceis suis; convulneravit lumbos meos: non pepercit, et effudit in terra viscera mea. |