Revised Webster's Bible
Job 10:16
16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon 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
14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from my iniquity. 15If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou my affliction; For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. 17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 18Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
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וְ֭יִגְאֶה כַּשַּׁ֣חַל תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי וְ֝תָשֹׁ֗ב תִּתְפַּלָּא־בִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 10:16
- Isaiah 38:13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Lamentations 3:10He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
- Hosea 13:7Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them :
- Amos 3:8The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
- Numbers 16:29If these men shall die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
- Deuteronomy 28:59Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and grievous sicknesses, and of long continuance.
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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