Job 16:14

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He breaketh me - He crushes me. With breach upon breach - He renews and repeats the attack, and thus completely overwhelms me. One blow follo...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 16:6-17 contain a bitter complaint of God's ferocity against Job, in spite of his innocence. The connexion of Job 16:6 with the context is...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

giant . mighty man. Hebrew. gibbor. App-14.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

His archers compass me, &c.— The metaphor is here taken from huntsmen. First they surround the beast; then he is shot dead; his entrails are ne...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. The image is from storming a fortress by making breaches in the walls...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Fourth Speech ( Job 16:17 ) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfor...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

With breach upon breach ] with one blow after another, as a battering-ram makes breaches in a wall.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some sen...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(7) But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. (8) And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me:...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 anothe...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. Ver. 14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach ] So that I have hardly a...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

His archers compass me round about His plagues or judgments, elsewhere compared to arrows, and here to archers, surround me on all sides, and assau...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Tho...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My calamities have no interruption, but one immediately succeeds another, as it did Job 1 . Like a giant, who falls upon his enemy with all his mi...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends ( Job 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses fro...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . S...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Shows The Pitifulness of his Case and Maintains his Innocence
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, like a wall which is being battered down by heavy projectiles; He runneth upon me like a giant, like a migh...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 15:8 ; Lamentations 3:3-5 ; Psalms 42:7

¹⁴ He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 16:14