KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 16:14–15
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Job 16:14
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
14He breaketh me with breach vpon breach, he runneth vpon me like a giant.
Job 16:15
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
15I haue sowed sackcloth vpon my skin, and defiled my horne in the dust.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 16:14
Breaks, separates, opens, or bursts forth.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A break, rupture, opening, or act of breaking forth; also a violation.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
A man of extraordinary bulk and stature.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 16:15
United by stitches.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Coarse cloth worn as a sign of mourning, humiliation, or repentance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering; also, to strip off the skin or hide.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Fine, dry particles of earth; the ground or earth, often as an image of frailty, abasement, or death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 14
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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 study7They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
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Open the full verse study8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
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Open the full verse study3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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Open the full verse study7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
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Open the full verse study34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
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Open the full verse study5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
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Open the full verse study27And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
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Open the full verse study12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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Open the full verse study5Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
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Open the full verse study10The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
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Open the full verse study19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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Open the full verse study10All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
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