Job 16:12

I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

Cross-reference

Job 3:26 Contrast

Job 3:26 confirms he now has no rest or ease, directly contrasting with the past ease shattered in 16:12.

Job 7:20 Parallel

In Job 7:20, Job uses the exact 'target' imagery, asking why God made him his target — directly parallel to Job 16:12.

Job 6:4 Parallel

In Job 6:4, Job speaks of God's arrows piercing him — consistent with being God's target in Job 16:12.

Job 1:2 Historical context

Job 1:2 lists his seven sons and three daughters — part of the 'ease' he enjoyed before being shattered.

Job 1:3 Historical context

Job 1:3 describes his vast wealth and servants — blessings that constituted his former ease before shattering.

Job 29:3 Contrast

Job 29:3 recalls God's lamp shining on him — the blessed state he enjoyed before being shattered.

Job 29:18 Contrast

Job 29:18 shows his former confident expectation of long life — part of the ease that was shattered.

Lamentations 3:4 describes God wasting flesh and breaking bones — directly parallels Job's shattering imagery.

In Lamentations 3:11, God tearing and making desolate echoes Job's claim that God shattered him — same theme of divine destruction.

Lamentations 3:12 also uses the target metaphor, with God bending his bow — directly parallel to Job being set as a target.

Isaiah 38:13 has Hezekiah lamenting that God breaks his bones like a lion, echoing Job's experience of being shattered.

Lamentations 2:4 depicts God bending his bow as an enemy, paralleling Job being set up as a target.

Psalm 44:19 Parallel

Psalm 44:19 complains of being crushed by God in a place of jackals — similar theme of divine crushing, but communal rather than individual.