Job 16:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Job 16:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joel 2:7
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:
Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Judges 15:8
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Lamentations 3:3-5
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. …
Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

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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. 14)

14. The image is from storming a fortress by making breaches in the walls (2Ki 14:13). a giant--a mighty warrior.