The King James Version Bible

Job 16:12

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.

Cross References

  1. I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
  2. And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
  3. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
  4. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
  5. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
  6. For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
  7. He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
  8. When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
  9. Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
  10. Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  11. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
  12. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
  13. When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
  14. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
  15. Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.