Job 16:14
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
BSB
ASV
He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
KJV
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach,.... Upon his substance, his family, and the health of his body, which came thick and fast, one after another; referring to the report of those things brought by one messenger upon the back of another, see Eze 7:26; he runneth upon me like a giant; with great fury and fierceness, with great strength and courage, with great speed and swiftness, causing great terror and distress; he not being able to resist him, any more than a dwarf a giant, and no more, nor so much, a match for him; see Isa 42:13.
He breaketh me - He crushes me. With breach upon breach - He renews and repeats the attack, and thus completely overwhelms me. One blow follows another in such quick succession, that he does not give me time to recover. He runneth upon me like a giant - With great and irresistible force - as some strong and mighty warrior whom his adversary cannot resist. The Hebrew is גבור gı̂bbôr - “a mighty one.” Septuagint, “The mighty - δυνάμενοι dunamenoi - run upon me.” Vulgate, “gigas” - a giant.
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Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
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For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
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Joel 2:7They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
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the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
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Judges 15:8And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
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For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.