Job 16:10 “They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt;…”

Job 16:10

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

World English Bible

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

American Standard Version

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

Geneva Bible 1599

They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

Darby Translation

They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

Young's Literal Translation

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

Bible in Basic English

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

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Cross references

“gaped”

Psalm 22:13 Psalm 35:21 Psalm 22:16 Psalm 22:17 Luke 23:35 Luke 23:36

Psalm 22:13 · BSB

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

Psalm 35:21 · BSB

They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

Psalm 22:16 · BSB

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalm 22:17 · BSB

I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

Luke 23:35 · BSB

The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”

Luke 23:36 · BSB

The soldiers also mocked Him and came up to offer Him sour wine.

“they have smitten”

Isaiah 50:6 Lamentations 3:30 Micah 5:1 Acts 23:2 1 Kings 22:24 2 Corinthians 11:20

Isaiah 50:6 · BSB

I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.

Lamentations 3:30 · BSB

Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

Micah 5:1 · BSB

Now, O daughter of troops, mobilize your troops; for a siege is laid against us! With a rod they will strike the cheek of the judge of Israel.

Acts 23:2 · BSB

At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

1 Kings 22:24 · BSB

Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”

2 Corinthians 11:20 · BSB

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.

“gathered”

Psalm 35:15 Psalm 94:21 Acts 4:27

Psalm 35:15 · BSB

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Psalm 94:21 · BSB

They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

Acts 4:27 · BSB

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

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

In context

9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

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