Job 10:16 “Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again d…”

Job 10:16

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

World English Bible

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

American Standard Version

And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.

Geneva Bible 1599

But let it increase: hunt thou me as a lyon: returne and shew thy selfe marueilous vpon me.

Darby Translation

And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.

Young's Literal Translation

And it riseth — as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back — Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.

Bible in Basic English

And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

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Cross references

“Thou huntest”

Isaiah 38:13 Lamentations 3:10 Amos 3:8 Hosea 13:7 Hosea 13:8

Isaiah 38:13 · BSB

I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.

Lamentations 3:10 · BSB

He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

Amos 3:8 · BSB

The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken— who will not prophesy?

Hosea 13:7 · BSB

So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

Hosea 13:8 · BSB

Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.

“marvellous”

Deuteronomy 28:59 Numbers 16:29 Numbers 16:30

Deuteronomy 28:59 · BSB

He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

Numbers 16:29 · BSB

If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

Numbers 16:30 · BSB

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the…

Also

Job 5:9

Job 5:9 · BSB

the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

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