I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
Cross References
Job 7:20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
Job 9:17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
Lamentations 3:12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
Treasury of Scripture
I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
at ease
Job 1:2,3
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters…
Job 3:26
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job 29:3,18,19
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; …
broken me
Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Psalm 44:19
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
by my neck
Job 15:26
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Romans 16:4
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
shaken
Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Ezekiel 29:7
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
set me up
Job 7:12,20
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? …
Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
