Job 16:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I was at ease I lived in great peace and prosperity, and was contented and happy in the comfortable enjoyment of the gifts of God's bounty, not fretful and uneasy, as some are, in the midst of the blessings of providence, who thereby provoke God to take these blessings from them; but he hath broken me asunder Hath broken my spirit with the sense of his anger, and my body with loathsome ulcers; and all my hopes and prospects, as to the present life, by the destruction of all my children and property. He hath also taken me by the neck And thrown me down from an eminent condition into one most despicable; and shaken me to pieces As a mighty man acts with some young stripling when he wrestles with him; and set me up for his mark That he may shoot all his arrows into me, and wound me with one calamity after another.