Job 16:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I was at ease, and he broke me in two; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: He hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, And set me up for his mark.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I was living at ease, but [Satan] crushed me and broke me apart; yes, he seized me by the neck and dashed me in pieces; then he set me up for his target.

American Standard Version (1901)

I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

Common English Bible

I was at rest, but he shattered me, seized me by the back of my neck, dashed me into pieces; he raised me up for his target.

Catholic Public Domain Version

God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

God hath shut me up with the unjust man: and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 16:12 Cross References

Job 15:26

running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;

Job 16:11

God gives me up to the evil and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 23:16

God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

Job 29:3

when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

Job 3:26

I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”

Job 4:10

The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 6:4

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

Job 7:12

Am I the Sea or the Dragon that you set a guard over me?

Job 7:20

If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target? Why have I become a burden to you?

Job 9:17

For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;

Psalm 44:19

yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.

Lamentations 3:3

against me alone he turns his hand, again and again, all day long.

Lamentations 3:4

He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;

Ezekiel 29:7

when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their legs give way.

Matthew 21:44

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

Romans 16:4

who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but also all the churches of the gentiles.