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.
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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?
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. …
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
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…
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