The Meaning of Job 16:14 Explained

Job 16:14

KJV: He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

YLT: He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.

Darby: He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.

ASV: He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

Discover Job 16:14

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 16:14?

MEANING: What does Job 16:14 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 16:14 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 16:14?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

He breaketh  me with breach  upon  breach,  he runneth  upon me like a giant. 

What does Job 16:14 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 16:1-22 - Turning From "miserable Comforters" Unto God
With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they in his, instead of joining words together and evincing the pride of the immaculate, he would set himself to speak strengthening words and to assuage their grief by tender sympathy.
He compares his pains to the attack of a wild beast, Job 16:7-14; and from this he proceeds to describe the anguish of his grief, Job 16:15-20. But toward the end of the chapter a new thought begins to shape itself; and from his lowest despair he catches sight of a Vindicator and a vindication that must someday be his. Job 16:21 should be read as in the r.v., margin. Job wanted a son of man to plead for him; and his prayer has been more than answered in the Son of man, who pleads for us "not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an indissoluble life," Hebrews 7:16. "O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul," Lamentations 3:58. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 16

1  Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness
17  He maintains his innocence

What do the individual words in Job 16:14 mean?

He breaks me with wound on upon wound He runs at me like a warrior
יִפְרְצֵ֣נִי פֶ֭רֶץ עַל־ פְּנֵי־ פָ֑רֶץ יָרֻ֖ץ עָלַ֣י כְּגִבּֽוֹר

יִפְרְצֵ֣נִי  He  breaks  me 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: פָּרַץ  
Sense: to break through or down or over, burst, breach.
פֶ֭רֶץ  with  wound 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: פֶּרֶץ  
Sense: breach, gap, bursting forth.
פְּנֵי־  upon 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
פָ֑רֶץ  wound 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: פֶּרֶץ  
Sense: breach, gap, bursting forth.
יָרֻ֖ץ  He  runs 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: רוּץ 
Sense: to run.
עָלַ֣י  at  me 
Parse: Preposition, first person common singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
כְּגִבּֽוֹר  like  a  warrior 
Parse: Preposition-k, Adjective, masculine singular
Root: גִּבֹּור  
Sense: strong, mighty.

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