Job 16:14
Job 16:14 Meaning and Explanation
“He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.”
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What Does Job 16:14 Mean?
Job likens his suffering to a city wall battered until breach opens upon breach, while God rushes at him like a powerful warrior storming the breach. Blow follows blow with no pause for recovery.
This is the weariness of affliction that will not relent, where each new sorrow lands before the last has healed. Job's honesty names what many endure. Yet the reader knows the siege is not the whole story; the God who seems to storm the walls is the same God who will answer Job out of the whirlwind and restore him.
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What does Job 16:14 mean?
Job feels broken again and again, as if charged by a mighty warrior.