Job 16:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

At ease

Job 1:2

Job 3:26

Job 29:3

Broken me

By my neck

Job 15:26

Romans 16:4

Shaken

Lamentations 3:11

Ezekiel 29:7

Set me up

Job 7:12

Lamentations 3:12

Bible References

At ease

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.

When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

Broken me

The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;

Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

By my neck

He runneth against him, with outstretched neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;

(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not I only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

Shaken

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst give way and rend all their shoulder; and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and didst make all their loins to tremble.

Set me up

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.