Job 16:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

Job 16:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 35:16
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Lamentations 2:16
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
Hosea 6:1
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
Job 19:11
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blasphemy Cursing Gnashing of Teeth God Profanity Speaking Swearing

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. 9)

9. Image from a wild beast. So God is represented (Job 10:16). who hateth me--rather, “and pursues me hard.” Job would not ascribe “hatred” to God (Psa 50:22). mine enemy--rather, “he sharpens, &c., as an enemy” (Psa 7:12). Darts wrathful glances at me, like a foe (Job 13:24).