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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.

I was at ease {H7961}, but he hath broken me asunder {H6565}: he hath also taken {H270} me by my neck {H6203}, and shaken me to pieces {H6327}, and set me up {H6965} for his mark {H4307}.

I was at peace, and he shook me apart. Yes, he grabbed me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He set me up as his target

I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

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.

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Cross-References

  • Lamentations 3:11 (4 votes)

    He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
  • Lamentations 3:12 (4 votes)

    He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
  • Job 7:20 (4 votes)

    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?
  • Psalms 44:19 (3 votes)

    Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Lamentations 3:4 (3 votes)

    My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
  • Job 15:26 (2 votes)

    He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
  • Job 29:3 (2 votes)

    When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;
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