Job 10:16
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New International Version (©1984)
If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion and again display your awesome power against me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Like a proud, ferocious lion you hunt me down. You keep working your miracles against me.

King James Bible
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

American King James Version
For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself marvelous on me.

American Standard Version
And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion; And again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.

Bible in Basic English
And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Darby Bible Translation
And it increaseth: thou huntest me as a fierce lion; and ever again thou shewest thy marvellous power upon me.

English Revised Version
And if my head exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvelous upon me.

Webster's Bible Translation
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself wonderful upon me.

World English Bible
If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

Young's Literal Translation
And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.

Geneva Study Bible

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself {q} marvellous upon me.

(q) Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the spirit, breaks out into these affections, wishing rather for short days than long pain.

Wesley's Notes

10:16 Lion - Which hunteth after his prey with great eagerness, and when he overtakes it, falls upon it with great fury. Returnest - The lion tears its prey speedily, and so ends its torments; but thou renewest my calamities again and again, and makest my plagues wonderful both for kind and extremity, and continuance.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. increaseth-rather, "(if) I lift up (my head) Thou wouldest hunt me," &c. [Umbreit].

and again-as if a lion should not kill his prey at once, but come back and torture it again.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come.


Job 5:9 Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number.
Isaiah 38:13 "I composed my soul until morning. Like a lion-- so He breaks all my bones, From day until night You make an end of me.
Lamentations 3:10 He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.
Hosea 13:7 So I will be like a lion to them; Like a leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside. (NASB ©1995)

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For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

Thou huntest Isa 38:13 La 3:10 Ho 13:7,8 Am 3:8

marvellous Nu 16:29,30 De 28:59

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