Job 16:13 - Exposition

His archers compass me round about . God is represented, not as himself the shooter of the arrows, but as surrounding Job with a body of archers, who are under his command and carry out his will. So, generally, Scripture represents the judgments of God as carried out by interior agents (see 2 Samuel 24:16 ; 1 Chronicles 21:15 ; 2 Kings 19:35 , etc.). He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare . The allusion is probably to Job's physical sufferings, which included severe pains in the lumbar region. He poureth out my gall upon the ground. The rupture of the gallbladder causes the contents to be sprit upon the ground.