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Job 16:12
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Job 16:12
12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my necke, and shaken me to pieces, and set me vp for his marke.
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Job 16:12
Freedom or relief from pain, labour, trouble, or restraint; also to relieve, quiet, or make less difficult.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Received, seized, carried, accepted, captured, chosen, or laid hold of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To shake: to move violently, disturb, unsettle, or make unstable.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A visible sign or impression; as a verb, to notice, designate, or set a sign upon.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
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Open the full verse study11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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Open the full verse study4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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Open the full verse study17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
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Open the full verse study19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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Open the full verse study7When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
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Open the full verse study26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
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Open the full verse study18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
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Open the full verse study3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
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Open the full verse study10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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Open the full verse study12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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Open the full verse study44And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
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Open the full verse study4Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
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Open the full verse study2And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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Open the full verse study26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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