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Job 16:9
Job 16:9 is verse 9 of Job chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
King James Version
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
World English Bible
He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
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Job 16:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9 His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10 They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Job 10:17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
Job 18:4You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Lamentations 3:10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
Hosea 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
Psalms 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Psalms 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
Lamentations 2:16All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.