Job 16:12

I was in peace, and he has shattered me. ¹  He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. ²  He has made me his target;

Job 1:2,3; Job 3:26; Job 4:10; Job 7:12,20; Job 15:26; Job 29:3,18,19; Ps 44:19; La 3:4; La 3:11; La 3:12; Eze 29:7; Mt 21:44; Ro 16:4

¹ tn The verb פָּרַר (parar) means “to shake.” In the Hiphil it means “to break; to shatter” (5:12; 15:4). The Pilpel means “to break in pieces,” and in the Poel in Jer 23:29 “to smash up.” So Job was living at ease, and God shattered his life.

² tn Here is another Pilpel, now from פָּצַץ (patsats) with a similar meaning to the other verb. It means “to dash into pieces” and even scatter the pieces. The LXX translates this line, “he took me by the hair of the head and plucked it out.”