Job 10:16

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

14“ ‘If I sin, you watch me and will not free me from my guilt. 15How terrible it will be for me if I’m guilty! Even if I’m righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am filled with disgrace while I look on my misery. Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me. 17You keep finding new witnesses against me. You keep increasing your anger toward me. You keep bringing new armies against me. 18“ ‘Why did you take me out of the womb? I wish I had breathed my last breath before anyone had laid eyes on me.

Job 10:16 word by word

וְ֭יִגְאֶה כַּשַּׁ֣חַל תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי וְ֝תָשֹׁ֗ב תִּתְפַּלָּא־בִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For it increasethגָּאָהgâ'âh · to rise upH1342
• Thou huntestצוּדtsûd · to huntH6679
• me as a fierce lionשַׁ֫חַלshachal · lionH7826
• and againשׁוּבshûb · to return: againH7725
• thou shewest thyself marvellousפָּלָאpâlâ' · to wonderH6381

Cross-references for Job 10:16

• Isaiah 38:13I cried out until morning as if a lion had crushed all my bones. You ended my life in one day.
• Lamentations 3:10He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, like a lion in hiding.
• Hosea 13:7So I will be like a lion. Like a leopard I will wait by the road to ambush you.
• Amos 3:8The lion has roared. Who isn’t afraid? The Almighty Lord has spoken. Who can keep from prophesying?
• Numbers 16:29If these men die like all other people—if they die a natural death—then the Lord hasn’t sent me.
• Deuteronomy 28:59If so, the Lord will strike you and your descendants with unimaginable plagues. They will be terrible and continuing plagues and severe and lingering diseases.

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

Topics related to Job 10:16

• God
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• Comfort
• Darkness
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• Exalt
• Hunting
• Increase
• Lion
• Marvel; Marvelous

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