Job 16:14

What does Job 16:14 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 16:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

He breaketh me--breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

He hath compassed me round about with his lances, he hath wounded my loins, he hath not spared, and hath poured out my bowels on the earth,

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.

Context

v.13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

v.14This passage

v.15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Judges 15:8

    And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

  • Job 9:17

    For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

  • Joel 2:7

    They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks.

  • Lamentations 3:3

    Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

  • Psalms 42:7

    Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

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