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Job 16:11

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

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 11

This chapter begins Job's reply to that discourse of Eliphaz which we had in the foregoing chapter; it is but the second part of the same song of lamentation with which he had before bemoaned himself, and is set to the same melancholy tune. I. He upbraids his friends with their unkind usage of him (Job 16:1-5). II. He represents his own case as very deplorable upon all accounts (Job 16:6-16). III. He still holds fast his integrity, concerning which he appeals to God's righteous judgment from the unrighteous censures of his friends (Job 16:14-22).

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Strong's Concordancev. 11

אֵל (ʼêl, H410) — strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity) סָגַר (çâgar, H5462) — to shut up; figuratively, to surrender עֲוִיל (ʻăvîyl, H5760) — perverse (morally) יָרַט (yâraṭ, H3399) — to precipitate or hurl (rush) headlong; (intransitively) to be rash יָד (yâd, H3027) — a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), רָשָׁע (râshâʻ, H7563) — morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person

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Psalms 27:12rank 4

Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

Psalms 31:8rank 3

You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

Psalms 7:14rank 3

Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

II Corinthians 12:7rank 2

or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

Job 2:7rank 2

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

I Samuel 24:18rank 2

And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.

John 19:16rank 2

Then Pilate handed Jesus over to be crucified, and the soldiers took Him away.

Romans 11:32rank 2

For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.

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