Job 16:10 {11}
Good News Translation
People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.

New Revised Standard Version
They have gaped at me with their mouths; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.

Contemporary English Version
Everyone is against me; they sneer and slap my face.

New American Bible
They gape at me with their mouths; They strike me on the cheek with insults; they are all enlisted against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.

gaped

Psalm 22:13,16,17 They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring. . . .

Psalm 35:21 And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well done, well done, our eyes have seen it.

Luke 23:35,36 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God. . . .

they have smitten

1 Kings 22:24 And Sedecias, the son of Chanaana, came, and struck Micheas on the cheek, and said: Hath then the spirit of the Lord left me, and spoken to thee?

2 Chronicles 18:23 And Sedecias the son of Chanaana came, and struck Micheas on the cheek and said: Which way went the spirit of the Lord from me, to speak to thee?

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Lamentations 3:30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

Micah 5:1 Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn iron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of the whole earth.

Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands,

John 18:22 And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: Answerest thou the high priest so?

Acts 23:2 And the high priest, Ananias, commanded them that stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

2 Corinthians 11:20 For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.

gathered

Psalm 35:15 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

Psalm 94:21 They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me. [10] He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes. 10They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains.11God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.…
Cross References
Acts 23:2
And the high priest, Ananias, commanded them that stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

Job 16:11
God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 30:12
At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.

Psalm 3:7
For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

Psalm 22:13
They have opened their mouths against me, as a lion ravening and roaring.

Psalm 35:15
But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

Psalm 35:21
And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well done, well done, our eyes have seen it.

Isaiah 50:6
I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Lamentations 2:16
Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.

Lamentations 3:30
Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

Micah 5:1
Arise, and tread, O daughter of Sion: for I will make thy horn iron, and thy hoofs I will make brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples, and shalt immolate the spoils of them to the Lord, and their strength to the Lord of the whole earth.

Job 16:9
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