Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
14. Another figure, that of an edifice or fort overthrown by repeated breaches, and stormed by warriors. Giant is a mighty man, or warrior, Isa 42:13.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
He breaketh me – He crushes me.
With breach upon breach – He renews and repeats the attack, and thus completely overwhelms me. One blow follows another in such quick succession, that he does not give me time to recover.
He runneth upon me like a giant – With great and irresistible force – as some strong and mighty warrior whom his adversary cannot resist. The Hebrew is gbbor – a mighty one. Septuagint, The mighty – dunamenoi – run upon me. Vulgate, gigas – a giant.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
My calamities have no interruption, but one immediately succeeds another, as it did Job 1.
Like a giant, who falls upon his enemy with all his might, that he may overthrow and kill him.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. The image is from storming afortress by making breaches in the walls (2Ki14:13).
a gianta mightywarrior.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He breaketh me with breach upon breach,…. Upon his substance, his family, and the health of his body, which came thick and fast, one after another; referring to the report of those things brought by one messenger upon the back of another, see Eze 7:26;
he runneth upon me like a giant; with great fury and fierceness, with great strength and courage, with great speed and swiftness, causing great terror and distress; he not being able to resist him, any more than a dwarf a giant, and no more, nor so much, a match for him; see
Isa 42:13.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
14. Breach upon breach In the preceding verse the human body was compared to a target pierced through and through with arrows; it is now compared to a citadel of strength which the besiegers have breached again and again.
Giant Warrior.
Job 16:14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Ver. 14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach ] So that I have hardly any breathing while, Quis tot et tantis ferendis simul par sit? Let no man henceforth say, Never did any one suffer such hard and heavy things as I do. What! did not Job? This story of his is a case book to answer such an objection, since never any before nor since his time was so handled; witness the lamentable moan he maketh here, Non habet in nobis iam nova plaga locum. And yet to show his equanimity under the hand of God, Buxtorf and Amama have observed, that the Hebrew word, Perets, in this text rendered breath, hath a letter lesser than ordinary in the best copies, to signify that Job’s great calamities seemed to him to be but little, because he hoped that God would turn them all to the best unto his soul.
He runneth upon me like a giant giant = mighty man. Hebrew. gibbor. App-14.
breaketh: Lam 3:3-5
runneth: Jdg 15:8, Psa 42:7
Reciprocal: Job 1:18 – there came Job 9:17 – For he Job 19:22 – persecute Jer 17:18 – destroy them with double destruction
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge