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Job 10:16

Job 10:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me. This passage is very obscure, and has been taken in several quite different senses. On the whole, it is not clear that any better meaning can be assigned to it than that of the Authorized Version, "For my affliction increaseth," or "is ever increasing.

Thou huntest me;" i.e. thou art continually pursuing me with thy plagues, thy "arrows" (), thy" wounds" (), thy poisoned shafts (). Thou givest me no rest, therefore I am ever conscious of my afflictions.

As a fierce lion. Schultens regards Job as the lion, and so Jarchi and others. But most commentators take the view that the lion is God (comp. ; ; ; ; ; , ).

And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me; or, thou dealest marvellously with me; i.e. "inflictest on me strange and marvellous sufferings.'

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