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Job 16:14

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16:14He breaks through against me, time and time again;38

he rushes39 against me like a warrior.

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Footnotes

  1. 38 The word פָּרַץ (parats) means “to make a breach” in a wall (Isa 5:5; Ps 80:13). It is used figuratively in the birth and naming of Peres in Gen 38:29. Here the image is now of a military attack that breaks through a wall. The text uses the cognate accusative, and then with the addition of עַל־פְּנֵי (’al-péne, “in addition”) it repeats the cognate noun. A smooth translation that reflects the three words is difficult. E. Dhorme (Job, 237) has “he batters me down, breach upon breach.”
  2. 39 Heb “runs.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He breaks me with breach upon breach;

he runs upon me like a warrior.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Again and again he bursts upon me;

he rushes at me like a warrior.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He breaks through my defenses again and again;

he charges at me like a warrior.

NLTNew Living Translation

Again and again he smashes against me,

charging at me like a warrior.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He breached me breach upon breach;

he rushes at me like a warrior.

KJV 1900King James Version

He breaketh me with breach upon breach,

He runneth upon me like a giant.