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He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
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The Feeling of Relentless Trials
Commentators explain that the phrase 'breach upon breach' describes a series of rapid, relentless attacks. One scholar connects this imagery directly to the story in Job 1, where messengers arrived one after another with devastating news. Job feels he is being overwhelmed by successive blows, with no time to recover between them.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He breaks me - He crushes me.
With breach upon breach - He renews and repeats the attack, and thus completely overwhelms me. O…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He breaketh me with breach upon breach Upon his substance, his family, and the health of his body, which came thick …
Here is a sorrowful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, whe…
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13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had spoken harshly against Job in his answer, so Job begins his speech by accusing him of providing unfitting consolation. First, because h…
