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Job 10:16 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: King James Version
" For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. "
Job 10:16
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
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Job 10:1
"My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul."
Job 10:2
"I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me."
Job 10:3
"Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?"
Job 10:4
"Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?"
Job 10:5
"Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,"
Job 10:6
"That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?"
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