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Job 16:12 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: King James Version
" I 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. "
Job 16:12
Verse in Context
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10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
12 I 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.
13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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Job 16:1
"Then Job answered and said,"
Job 16:2
"I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all."
Job 16:3
"Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?"
Job 16:4
"I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you."
Job 16:5
"But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief."
Job 16:6
"Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?"
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