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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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Albert Barnes
On Job 16:14
18th Century
Theologian
He breaks me - He crushes me.
With breach upon breach - He renews and repeats the attack, and thus completely overwhelms me. O…
John Gill
On Job 16:14
17th Century
Pastor
He breaketh me with breach upon breach
Upon his substance, his family, and the health of his body, which came thick …
Matthew Henry
On Job 16:6–16
17th Century
Minister
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…