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Job 10:16
16If I try to be brave, you chase me like a hungry lion. You show your power to hurt me.
Job 10:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
- New International Version (NIV)If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.
Context of Job 10:16
14You were watching me to see if I did wrong things. Then you would refuse to forgive me. 15If I am guilty of sin, that brings terrible trouble to me. But if I am righteous, I still feel ashamed. Whatever I do, I have nothing but shame and my life is full of trouble. If I try to be brave, you chase me like a hungry lion. You show your power to hurt me. 17You find more reasons to attack me. You become more and more angry with me. You attack me with even greater power. 18Why did you let me be born? I should have died before anyone saw me.
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וְ֭יִגְאֶה כַּשַּׁ֣חַל תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי וְ֝תָשֹׁ֗ב תִּתְפַּלָּא־בִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 10:16
- Isaiah 38:13I waited until morning would come. It seemed like God was breaking all my bones, like a lion does. As quickly as day becomes night, God brings my life to an end.
- Lamentations 3:10God is like a strong wild animal. He hides and he waits for me by the path.
- Hosea 13:7So I will attack them like a lion. I will be like a leopard that waits beside the road. It is ready to catch anything that goes that way.
- Amos 3:8So now the lion has roared! Everyone should be afraid! The Lord God has spoken, so his prophets must tell his message.
- Numbers 16:29If these men die in a usual way, as all men will die one day, then the Lord did not choose me.
- Deuteronomy 28:59If you refuse to do that, the Lord will punish you and your descendants more and more. You will have lots of pain and many kinds of terrible disease that will not get better.
Commentaries on Job 10:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16For it increaseth - Probably this refers to the affliction mentioned above, which is increased in proportion to its duration. Every day made his escape from such a load of evils less and less probable. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion - As the hunters attack the king of beasts in the forest, so my friends attack me. They assail me on every side. Thou showest thyself marvelous - Thy designs, thy ways, thy works, are all incomprehensible to me; thou dost…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16For it increaseth - Our translators understand this as meaning that the calamities of Job, so far from becoming less, were constantly increasing, and thus augmenting his perplexity and embarrassment. But a somewhat different explanation is given to it by many interpreters. The word rendered “increaseth” (גאה gâ'âh ) means properly, to lift up, to lift up oneself, to rise; and Gesenius supposes that it refers here to “the head,” and that the meaning is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-22Verses 14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. increaseth--rather, "(if) I lift up (my head) Thou wouldest hunt me," &c. [Umbreit]. and again--as if a lion should not kill his prey at once, but come back and torture it again.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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