“He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.”
"He bursts upon me again and again; he runs upon me like a warrior." God attacks repeatedly and relentlessly, like a military force. The image is of overwhelming force, of an opponent who cannot be resisted or fled. Job is not in combat with God; he is being trampled by divine assault.
Church Fathers on Job 16:14
He hath broken me with breach upon breach. In her weak members Holy Church is ‘broken with breach upon breach,’ when sin is added to sin, that transgression should be brought to a more dreadful pitch. Thus for him, whom avarice forces to robbery and robbery leads into deceit, so that the sin committed is further defended by falsehood, how else is it with this man, but that he is broken with breach upon breach? When too it is well said by the Prophet; Cursing, and lying, and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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