He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
Parallel translations
- WEB He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
- KJV He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- NKJV He breaks me with wound upon wound; He runs at me like a warrior.
- NASB “He breaks through me with breach after breach; He runs at me like a warrior.
- NLT Again and again he smashes against me, charging at me like a warrior.
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Quick answer
Job feels broken again and again, as if God charges at him like a warrior. His afflictions come in relentless waves.
Overview
Job laments breach upon breach, picturing God running at him like a giant or mighty man. The image conveys repeated, crushing blows with no respite. This honest depiction of unrelenting suffering shows that faith does not deny pain's severity but brings even its fiercest complaints into God's presence, where lament itself becomes an act of trust.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Judg 15:8And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- Joel 2:7They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
- Ps 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- Lam 3:3–5Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
- Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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