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Job 16:13
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his archers surround me.He pierces my kidneys without mercyand pours my bile on the ground.
His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
his archers surround me. He stabs my kidneys without mercy; he spills my blood on the ground.
his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
"His arrows surround me. He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy; He pours out my gall on the ground.
"His arrows surround me. He splits my kidneys open without mercy; He pours out my bile on the ground.
His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.
His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, & powreth my gall vpon the ground.
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
for his arrows, and without showing mercy, he slashed my stomach open, spilling out my insides.
his archers surrounded me. He slashes my innards and shows no mercy, he pours my gall on the ground.
His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
With his archers all around me, he shoots arrows into my kidneys. He shows no mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
His arrows are round about me, he shoots at my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
and shoots arrows at me from every side— arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.
His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground.
His archers surround me; He splits my inward parts and has no pity; He pours out my gall on the ground.
He hath compased me rounde aboute with his dartes, he hath wounded my loynes, & not spared. My bowels hath he poured vpon the grounde.
His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
His archers compass me round about, He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare;
His archers compasse me round about, he cleaueth my reines asunder, and doeth not spare; he powreth out my gall vpon the ground.
His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.
When I was at peace he distracted me: he took me by the hair of the head, and plucked it out: he set me up as a mark.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
He hath cumpasside me with hise speris, he woundide togidere my leendis; he sparide not, and schedde out myn entrails in to the erthe.
His archers compass me round about; He splits my reins apart, and does not spare; He pours out my gall on the ground.
His archers encompass me; he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
His archers surround me.He pierces my heart [fn] and does not pity;He pours out my gall on the ground.
and now his archers surround me. His arrows pierce me without mercy. The ground is wet with my blood.
His arrows are all around me. He cuts my kidneys open without pity. He pours the bitter insides on the ground.
his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and shows no mercy; he pours out my gall on the ground.
His archers came round against me, He clave asunder my reins, and spared not, He poured out, on the earth, my gall:
(16-14) 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,
his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys, and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.
Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.
"His arrows surround me. Without mercy He splits my kidneys open; He pours out my gall on the ground.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
archers: Job 6:4, Genesis 49:23, Psalms 7:12, Psalms 7:13
he cleaveth: Job 19:27, Lamentations 3:13
doth: Job 6:10, Deuteronomy 29:20, Ezekiel 5:11, Romans 8:32, 2 Peter 2:5
poureth: Job 20:25, Lamentations 2:11
Reciprocal: Job 19:22 - persecute Job 34:6 - wound Psalms 21:12 - make Psalms 73:21 - in my Psalms 88:17 - They Lamentations 3:11 - pulled Lamentations 3:12 - bent
Cross-References
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar.
And Sarai said to Abram, "May the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became contemptible in her sight. May Yahweh judge between you and me."
Now the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.
Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hands."
Moreover, the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed so that they will be too many to be counted."
And he will be a wild donkey of a man,His hand will be against everyone,And everyone's hand will be against him;And he will dwell in the face of all his brothers."
And Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide, as it is said this day, "In the mount of Yahweh it will be provided."
And he was afraid and said, "How fearsome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the dread of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered the decision last night."
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
His archers compass me round about,.... Satan and his principalities and powers casting their fiery darts at him; or rather, his friends shooting their arrows, even bitter words, reproaches, and calumnies; or the various diseases of his body, his boils and ulcers, which were so many arrows shot into him, in every part of him all around, and gave him exquisite pain and anguish; besides the arrows of the Almighty, or that painful sensation he had of the wrath of God. This also is true of Christ, the antitype of Job and of Joseph; of the latter of which it is said, "the archers sorely grieved him, and shot at him, but his bow abode in strength", Genesis 49:23; so Satan and his ministers threw their fiery darts at Christ when on the cross, and the scribes and priests, his emissaries, surrounded him there, and shot out their reproachful and blasphemous words at him, and the justice of God smote him, and the law of God cast its curses on him. Gussetius renders the words, "his great ones" g; and such Job's friends were, men of great substance, and lived in great credit and honour; some have supposed them to be kings, and such were those that opposed Christ, and distressed him, the rulers of the people, civil and ecclesiastic:
he cleaveth my reins asunder; by causing his arrows to enter into them, Lamentations 3:13; the consequence of which must be death; a man cannot live, at least long, after this is his case; though some think this is to be understood of the disorder of the stone in his reins or kidneys, which was very distressing to him:
and doth not spare; shows no mercy or pity, though in such sad circumstances and dreadful agonies; thus God spared not his own son, Romans 8:32;
he poureth out my gall upon the ground; which is done by piercing the gall bladder with the sword, or any such instrument, see Job 20:25; which must issue in death; and the design of both these clauses is to show, that Job looked upon his case irretrievable, and he here makes use of hyperbolical expressions to set it forth by.
g "Ejus magnates", Comment. Ebr. p. 773. רביו "ejus magni", Montanus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
His archers - He does not come alone to shoot at me; he has employed a company of bowmen, who also direct “their” arrows against me. The word used here רב rab means properly “much, large,” great; and is applied to that which is powerful or mighty. It is nowhere else used in the sense of “archers,” and might be rendered “his many;” that is, his bands, hosts, or armies. But as all the ancient versions render it “arrows,” or “archers,” probably that sense is to be retained. Allusion is here made to those who claimed to be the friends of Job, but who now showed to his apprehension that they were merely sharp-shooters under the control of God, to deepen his woes.
He cleaveth my reins asunder - With his arrows. They penetrate quite through me.
He poureth out my gall - The word “gall” means the “bile” - the yellowish green bitter fluid secreted in the liver. A similar figure occcurs in Lamentations 2:11, “My liver is poured upon the earth.” Among the pagan poets, also, the “liver” is represented as pierced, and as pouring out gore. Thus, Aesch. Agam. 442: θιγγάνει πρὸς ἧπαρ thinganei pros hēpar. So also 801: Δῆγμα λύπης ἐφ ̓ ἧπαρ προσικνεἴται Dēgma lupēs eph' hēpar prosikneitai. So in the Iliad, xiii. 412, xx. 469, 470. The meaning here is, “I am transfixed with a deadly wound, and must die. God has come upon me as an armed man, and has pierced my vitals.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 16:13. His archers compass me — רביו rabbaiv "his great ones." The Vulgate and Septuagint translate this his spears; the Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee, his arrows. On this and the following verse Mr. Heath observes: "The metaphor is here taken from huntsmen: first, they surround the beast; then he is shot dead; his entrails are next taken out; and then his body is broken up limb by limb."
