14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. …
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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