Job 10:16 KJV
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Words Then and Now
- shewest to show Still heard today: show, the same word; shewn is still a British legal spelling Webster’s 1828 · Show
What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.
Thou and Ye
- thou, thyself one person
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- He complains of God's severityJob 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,...
Thompson Chains
- Lions (2)Link 4 of 8 · next Psalms 17:12
Parallel Passages
- Job 5:9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- Isaiah 38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Lamentations 3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Isaiah 38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Lamentations 3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
- Job 5:9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- Numbers 16:29–30 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me. …
- Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Hosea 13:7–8 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: …
- Amos 3:8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
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Topics
- God Unclassified scriptures relating to
- Hunting Of lion
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Murmuring Job
- Philosophy Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and His providence
Hebrew and Strong’s
- For it increaseth וְיִגְאֶה wĕyigʾê גָּאָה Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular · with and
- Thou huntest תְּצוּדֵנִי tĕṣûdēnî צוּד Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine singular · with suffix: first person common singular
- me as a fierce lion כַּשַּׁחַל kaššaḥal שַׁחַל Noun · masculine singular · with preposition with the
- and again וְתָשֹׁב wĕtāšōb שׁוּב Verb · qal imperfect, second person masculine singular · with and
- thou shewest thyself marvellous תִּתְפַּלָּא titpallāʾ פָּלָא Verb · hithpael imperfect, second person masculine singular בִי bî Preposition · with suffix: first person common singular
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