Job 16:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²I 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.

Job 16:12 —

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Cross-References

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Job 7:20
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?
Lamentations 3:11-12
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. …
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Psalms 44:19
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

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

(vv. 6-16)

Job’s complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the afflicted, according as the temper or the circumstances are; but Job found help by neither, Job 16:6. 1. Sometimes giving vent to grief gives ease; but, “ Though I speak ” (says Job), “ my grief is not assu…

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

(vv. 12)

12. I was at ease--in past times (Job 1:1-3). by my neck--as an animal does its prey (so Job 10:16). shaken--violently; in contrast to his former “ease” (Psa 102:10). Set me up (again). mark--(Job 7:20; La 3:12). God lets me always recover strength, so as to torment me ceaselessly.