Job 16:14
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He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
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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).
Open source ↗16:14 Again and again he smashes against me: Job pictures himself as a fortress that God is besieging. Job saw God as a warrior (cp. Exod 15:3; Ps 24:8) who did not defend him or offer him salvation (Jer 20:11; Zeph 3:17) but attacked him as though he were dangerous (Job 6:12; see Isa 42:13).
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Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.