Bible Strands
Job 16:14
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job speaks to his three friends while cataloging God’s assault, positioned immediately after describing archers piercing his kidneys and before detailing his sackcloth mourning.
The words — The Hebrew פֶּרֶץ (peretz) means a breach or breaking through, paired with יָרֻץ (yarutz), meaning he runs or rushes, capturing the sudden, violent penetration of the speaker’s body.
The thread — This imagery of overwhelming force appears in Job 9:17 where God multiplies wounds without cause, Judges 15:8 describing a ruthless slaughter, and Psalms 42:7 where breakers and waves roll over the speaker.
Why it lands — The text demands the reader confront the unvarnished reality of sustained, multi-directional trauma without softening the military imagery, leaving the speaker’s physical destruction as the immediate focus.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Cross-references
- Judges 15:8 And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- Job 9:17 For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Psalms 42:7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- Lamentations 3:3 Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
- Joel 2:7 They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.