Job 16:10 People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
People open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me.

English Standard Version
Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.

New American Standard Bible
"They have gaped at me with their mouth, They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt; They have massed themselves against me.

King James Bible
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join themselves together against me.

International Standard Version
People gaped at me with mouths wide open; they slap me in their scorn and gather together against me.

American Standard Version
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together 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.

Darby Bible Translation
They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

Young's Literal Translation
They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

Cross References

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

Job 16:11
God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Job 30:12
On my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Psalm 3:7
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Psalm 22:13
They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psalm 35:15
But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yes, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Psalm 35:21
Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

Isaiah 50:6
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

Lamentations 3:30
He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

16:6-16 Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and pronounced those blessed that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. gaped—not in order to devour, but to mock him. To fill his cup of misery, the mockery of his friends (Job 16:10) is added to the hostile treatment from God (Job 16:9).

smitten … cheek—figurative for contemptuous abuse (La 3:30; Mt 5:39).

gathered themselves—"conspired unanimously" [Schuttens].