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Job 16

Job 16:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I was at ease
shalev (Hebrew #7961)
feminine shlevah {shel-ay-vaw'}; from 7951; tranquil; (in a bad sense) careless; abstractly, security
KJV usage: (being) at ease, peaceable, (in) prosper(-ity), quiet(-ness), wealthy.
Pronounce: shaw-lave'
Origin: or shaleyv {shaw-lave'}
, but he hath broken me asunder
parar (Hebrew #6565)
to break up (usually figuratively, i.e. to violate, frustrate
KJV usage: X any ways, break (asunder), cast off, cause to cease, X clean, defeat, disannul, disappoint, dissolve, divide, make of none effect, fail, frustrate, bring (come) to nought, X utterly, make void.
Pronounce: paw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
: he hath also taken
'achaz (Hebrew #270)
to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
KJV usage: + be affrighted, bar, (catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten, handle, portion, (get, have or take) possess(-ion).
Pronounce: aw-khaz'
Origin: a primitive root
me by my neck
`oreph (Hebrew #6203)
the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the back generally (whether literal or figurative)
KJV usage: back ((stiff-)neck((-ed).
Pronounce: o-ref'
Origin: from 6202
, and shaken me to pieces
puwts (Hebrew #6327)
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
KJV usage: break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
Pronounce: poots
Origin: a primitive root
, and set mex up
quwm (Hebrew #6965)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
KJV usage: abide, accomplish, X be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, X be dim, endure, X enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, X but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-)rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-)stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, - rising).
Pronounce: koom
Origin: a primitive root
for his mark
mattara' (Hebrew #4307)
from 5201; a jail (as a guard-house); also an aim (as being closely watched)
KJV usage: mark, prison.
Pronounce: mat-taw-raw'
Origin: or mattarah {mat-taw-raw'}
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Job 7:20• 20Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself? (Job 7:20)

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Ministry on This Verse

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at ease.
Job 1:2‑3• 2And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
 3And his substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; and this man was greater than all the children of the east. (Job 1:2‑3)
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Job 3:26• 26I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came. (Job 3:26)
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Job 29:3,18‑19• 3When his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
 18And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
 19My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch; (Job 29:3,18‑19)
broken me.
Job 4:10• 10The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken; (Job 4:10)
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Psa. 44:19• 19Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. (Psa. 44:19)
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Lam. 3:4• 4My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones. (Lam. 3:4)
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Matt. 21:44• 44And he that falls on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder. (Matt. 21:44)
by my neck.
Job 15:26• 26He runneth against him, with outstretched neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers; (Job 15:26)
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Rom. 16:4• 4(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not *I* only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,) (Rom. 16:4)
shaken.
Lam. 3:11• 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. (Lam. 3:11)
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Ezek. 29:7• 7When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst give way and rend all their shoulder; and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and didst make all their loins to tremble. (Ezek. 29:7)
set me up.
Job 7:12,20• 12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
 20Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself? (Job 7:12,20)
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Lam. 3:12• 12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. (Lam. 3:12)
• Let us read the account of our Lord’s sufferings at the hands of man and of God, and we find no confusing of the two, nor any charging God with evil....(Psa. 22:12-19). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.