Job 10:16
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
BSB
ASV
And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.
KJV
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
For it increaseth - Probably this refers to the affliction mentioned above, which is increased in proportion to its duration. Every day made his escape from such a load of evils less and less probable. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion - As the hunters attack the king of beasts in the forest, so my friends attack me. They assail me on every side. Thou showest thyself marvelous - Thy designs, thy ways, thy works, are all incomprehensible to me; thou dost both confound and overpower me.
God was not only strange to him, but showed himself marvellous upon him, by bringing him into uncommon troubles and so making him prodigy, a wonder unto many. All wondered that God would inflict and that Job could bear so much. That which made his afflictions most grievous was that he felt God's indignation in them; it was this that made them taste so bitter and lie so heavy.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
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Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I…
He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God.
Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
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Amos 3:8The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?
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Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?
For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”
If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of…