Job 10:16
Good News Translation
If I have any success at all, you hunt me down like a lion; to hurt me you even work miracles.

New Revised Standard Version
Bold as a lion you hunt me; you repeat your exploits against me.

Contemporary English Version
No matter how hard I try, you keep hunting me down like a powerful lion.

New American Bible
Should it lift up, you hunt me like a lion: repeatedly you show your wondrous power against me,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.

Thou huntest

Isaiah 38:13 I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Lamentations 3:10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

Hosea 13:7,8 And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians. . . .

Amos 3:8 The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who shall not prophesy?

marvellous

Numbers 16:29,30 If these men die the common death of men, and if they be visited with a plague, wherewith others also are wont to be visited, the Lord did not send me. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:59 The Lord shall increase thy plagues, and the plagues of thy seed, plagues great and lasting, infirmities grievous and perpetual.

Context
Job's Plea to God
15And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery. 16And for pride thou wilt take me as a lioness, and returning, thou tormentest me wonderfully.17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.…
Cross References
Job 5:9
Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:

Isaiah 38:13
I hoped till morning, as a lion so hath he broken all my bones: from morning even to night thou wilt make an end of me.

Lamentations 3:10
Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

Hosea 13:7
And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.

Job 10:15
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