Job 16:9
7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10 They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
11 God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- KJV
- He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- WEB
- He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
- ASV
- He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- DARBY
- His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.
- BLB
- [In] His anger He tears [me] and hates me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; My adversary sharpens His eyes against me.
- ÅB
- Hans vrede sønderrev meg og forfulgte meg; han skar tenner imot meg; som min motstander hvesset han sine øyne mot meg.
- OTB
- I sin vrede har Gud revet meg i stykker og jaktet på meg;
han skjærer tenner mot meg.
Min motstander stirrer på meg. - B1930
- Hans vrede sønderrev mig og forfulgte mig; han skar tenner imot mig; som min motstander hvesset han sine øine mot mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 35:16
Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Read in contextJob 13:24
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
Read in contextLamentations 2:16
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
Read in contextHosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
Read in contextJob 19:11
His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
Read in contextJob 18:4
You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Read in contextJob 13:27
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Read in contextActs 7:54
On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
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