Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 16:12

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 .

I lived in great peace and prosperity, which makes my present miseries more grievous to me: and therefore my Complaints are excusable, and I deserve pity rather than reproach from my friends.

Broken my Spirit with the sense of his anger, and my Body with loathsom Ulcers, as also by destroying my Children, a part of my own flesh or body.

As a mighty man doth with some young Stripling, when he wrestleth with him.

That he may shoot all his Arrows into me, and that with delight, which Archers have in that exercise.

Marginal references: Ch. 7. 20.