Job 16:13 “His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spill…”

Job 16:13

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

World English Bible

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

American Standard Version

His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Geneva Bible 1599

His archers compasse mee rounde about: he cutteth my reines, and doth not spare, and powreth my gall vpon the ground.

Darby Translation

His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

Young's Literal Translation

Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall.

Bible in Basic English

His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

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Cross references

“archers”

Job 6:4 Genesis 49:23 Psalm 7:12 Psalm 7:13

Job 6:4 · BSB

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Genesis 49:23 · BSB

The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

Psalm 7:12 · BSB

If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

Psalm 7:13 · BSB

He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

“he cleaveth”

Job 19:27 Lamentations 3:13

Job 19:27 · BSB

I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

Lamentations 3:13 · BSB

He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

“doth”

Job 6:10 Deuteronomy 29:20 Ezekiel 5:11 Romans 8:32 2 Peter 2:5

Job 6:10 · BSB

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Deuteronomy 29:20 · BSB

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Ezekiel 5:11 · BSB

Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I…

Romans 8:32 · BSB

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

2 Peter 2:5 · BSB

if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;

“poureth”

Job 20:25 Lamentations 2:11

Job 20:25 · BSB

It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.

Lamentations 2:11 · BSB

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

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

In context

12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

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