Job 16:10 Parallel Translations

People gaped at me with wide-open mouths. In scorn they slapped my cheeks. They united against me.(GOD'S WORD®)

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

ASV:

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

BBE:

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

DBY:

They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

ERV:

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: they gather themselves together against me.

JPS:

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; they gather themselves together against me.

WBS:

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves against me.

WEB:

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

YLT:

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

Job 16:10 Cross References

XREF:

Job 30:12 "On the right hand their brood arises; They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

Psalm 22:13 They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psalm 35:15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me, They slandered me without ceasing.

Isaiah 50:6 I gave My back to those who strike Me, And My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting.

Lamentations 3:30 Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.

Acts 23:2 The high priest Ananias commanded those standing beside him to strike him on the mouth. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the {l} cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
(l) That is, has handled me contemptuously: for so slapping the cheek signified, 1Ki 22:24, Mr 14:65

WES:

16:10 They - My friends. Gaped - Opened their mouths wide against me. In all this Job was a type of Christ. These very expressions are used in the predictions of his sufferings, Psal 22:13. They gaped upon me with their mouths, and Mic 5:1. They shall smite the judge of Israel upon the check.

MHC:

16:6-16 Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and pronounced those blessed that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

CONC:

Bitter Blows Cheek Cheeks Contempt Face Falling Gape Gaped Gather Gathered Insolently Jeer Mass Massed Mouth Mouths Open Range Reproach Reproachfully Scorn Scornfully Slapped Smite Smitten Strike Struck Themselves Unite Wide

Bitter Blows Cheek Cheeks Contempt Face Falling Gaped Gather Gathered Insolently Jeer Mass Massed Mouth Mouths Open Range Reproach Reproachfully Scorn Scornfully Slapped Smite Smitten Strike Struck Themselves Together Wide Words

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