Job Decries His Comforters
Job 16:14
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
- KJV
- He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- 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.
- LSV
- He breaks me—breach on breach, || He runs on me as a mighty one.
- YLT
- He breaketh me — breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
- DBY
- He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.
- DRC16:15
- He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.
- GNV
- He hath broken me with one breaking vpon another, and runneth vpon me like a gyant.
- JPS
- He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
- LXXE
- They overthrew me with fall upon fall: they ran upon me in their might.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- יִפְרְצֵ֣נִי פֶ֭רֶץ עַל־פְּנֵי־פָ֑רֶץ יָרֻ֖ץ עָלַ֣י כְּגִבּֽוֹר׃
- LXX-Br
- Κατέβαλόν με πτῶμα ἐπὶ πτώματι, ἔδραμον πρὸς μὲ δυνάμενοι.
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◆ Job's Trial
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Cross-references most cited first
- Judges 15:8And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Joel 2:7They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
- Lamentations 3:3–5Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long. He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones. He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 16:15 in some Bibles
- 16:14 in most Bibles