Job 16:13 BSB — MannaFest

Job 16:13

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

KJV

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

His archers compass me round about,.... Satan and his principalities and powers casting their fiery darts at him; or rather, his friends shooting their arrows, even bitter words, reproaches, and calumnies; or the various diseases of his body, his boils and ulcers, which were so many arrows shot into him, in every part of him all around, and gave him exquisite pain and anguish; besides the arrows of the Almighty, or that painful sensation he had of the wrath of God.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

His archers - He does not come alone to shoot at me; he has employed a company of bowmen, who also direct “their” arrows against me. The word used here רב rab means properly “much, large,” great; and is applied to that which is powerful or mighty. It is nowhere else used in the sense of “archers,” and might be rendered “his many;” that is, his bands, hosts, or armies. But as all the ancient versions render it “arrows,” or “archers,” probably that sense is to be retained.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יָ֘סֹ֤בּוּ	ya.So.bu	they surround	H5437 →
עָלַ֨י׀	'a.Lai	<on> me	H5921 →
רַבָּ֗יו	ra.Bav	archers his	H7228 →
יְפַלַּ֣ח	ye.fa.Lach	he splits open	H6398 →
כִּ֭לְיוֹתַי	Kil.yo.tai	kidneys my	H3629 →
וְלֹ֣א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יַחְמ֑וֹל	yach.Mol	he has compassion	H2550 →
יִשְׁפֹּ֥ךְ	yish.Pokh	he pours out	H8210 →
לָ֝אָ֗רֶץ	la.'A.retz	to the ground	H776 →
מְרֵרָֽתִי׃	me.re.Ra.ti	gall my	H4845 →

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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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
leads to
- Psalms 38:2
  For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
- Job 30:15
  Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- Psalms 88:15–16
  From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- Proverbs 18:14
  The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
Through
Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot…
leads to
- Psalms 74:1
  Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
Through
Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of…
leads to
- Lamentations 1:20
  See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
- Jeremiah 4:19
  My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm…
Through
Job 19:27
I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!
leads to
- Psalms 73:26
  My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job