KJV King James Version
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
WEB World English Bible
He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
ASV American Standard Version
He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He breaketh me—breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
Surrounding context — Job 16
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.
15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;
17 Not for [any] injustice in mine hands: also my prayer [is] pure.
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Lamentations 3:3-5Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.Judges 15:8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.Psalm 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.Job 9:17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.Joel 2:7They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
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