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.

By my neck

Bible References

At ease

Job 1:2
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 3:26
I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down, - when there came - consternation!
Job 29:3
When his lamp shone over my head, by whose light, I could go through darkness;

Broken me

Job 4:10
Notwithstanding the roaring of the lion, and the noise of the howling lion, yet, the teeth of the fierce lions, are broken:
Psalm 44:19
That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.
Lamentations 3:4
He hath worn out my flesh and my skin, hath broken my bones;
Matthew 21:44
And, he that falleth on this stone, will be sorely bruised; but, on whomsoever it may fall, it will utterly destroy him.

By my neck

Job 15:26
He used to run against him with uplifted neck, with the stout bosses of his bucklers;
Romans 16:4
Who, indeed, for my life, their own neck laid down, - unto whom - not, I only, give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations;

Shaken

Lamentations 3:11
My ways, hath he turned aside, and hath torn me in pieces, hath made me desolate;
Ezekiel 29:7
Whensoever they took held of thee by the hand, thou didst run through, and tear open for them every hand, - And whensoever they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and caused all their loins to halt.

Set me up

Job 7:12
Am, I, a sea, or a sea-monster, - That thou shouldst set over me a watch?
Lamentations 3:12
He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow.