Job 10:16

WEB

¹⁶If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

KJV

¹⁶For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

BSB

¹⁶Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

FBV

¹⁶If I do hold my head high you hunt me down like a lion, showing how powerful you are in hurting me.

Extra References

Isaiah 38:13

¹³I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

Lamentations 3:10

¹⁰He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.

Job 5:9

⁹who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

⁷Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path. ⁸I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

Numbers 16:29-30

²⁹If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then the LORD hasn’t sent me. ³⁰But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol,^[+] then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.”

Amos 3:8

⁸The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

Deuteronomy 28:59

⁵⁹then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.