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Job 16:9

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

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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.

KJV

He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אַפּ֤וֹ'a.Poanger hisH639 →
טָרַ֨ף׀ta.Rafit has torn [me]H2963 →
וַֽיִּשְׂטְמֵ֗נִיvai.yis.te.Me.niand it has assailed meH7852 →
חָרַ֣קcha.Rakhe has gnashedH2786 →
עָלַ֣י'a.Laitowards meH5921 →
בְּשִׁנָּ֑יוbe.shi.Navwith teeth hisH8127 →
צָרִ֓י׀tza.Riopponent myH6862 →
יִלְט֖וֹשׁyil.To.oshhe sharpensH3913 →
עֵינָ֣יו'ei.Naveyes hisH5869 →
לִֽי׃Lito me

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Psalms 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?Lamentations 2:16All 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!”Psalms 18:17He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.Hosea 6:1Come, 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.Job 19:11His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.Job 18:4You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?Job 10:16–17Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.Psalms 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.Hosea 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.Lamentations 3:10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.Job 33:10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.Jeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

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