Job 10:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

Job 10:16 —

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Lamentations 3:10
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Job 5:9
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Hosea 13:7-8
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: …
Amos 3:8
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-22)

Here we have, I. Job’s passionate complaints. On this harsh and unpleasant string he harps much, in which, though he cannot be justified, he may be excused. He complained not for nothing, as the murmuring Israelites, but had cause to complain. If we think it looks ill in him, let it be a warning to us to keep our temper better. 1. He complains of the strictness of God’s judgment and the rigour of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. increaseth--rather, “(if) I lift up (my head) Thou wouldest hunt me,” &c. [Umbreit]. and again--as if a lion should not kill his prey at once, but come back and torture it again.