English Standard Version
Job 9:17
17For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Job 9:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- New International Version (NIV)He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.
- New Living Translation (NLT)For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
Context of Job 9:17
15Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser. 16If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice. For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause; 18he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness. 19If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
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אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 9:17
- Job 16:14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.
- Psalms 29:5The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
- Psalms 83:15so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
- Isaiah 28:17And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter."
- Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.
- Ezekiel 13:13Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."
- Matthew 12:20a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;
- Job 1:14and there came a messenger to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
- Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
- Job 2:3And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason."
- Job 16:17although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
- Job 34:6in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'
- Psalms 25:3Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.
- John 9:3Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Commentaries on Job 9:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17He breaketh me with a tempest - The Targum, Syriac, and Arabic have this sense: He powerfully smites even every hair of my head and multiplies my wounds without cause. That is, There is no reason known to myself, or to any man, why I should be thus most oppressively afflicted. It is, therefore, cruel, and inconsequent to assert that I suffer for my crimes.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17For he breaketh me - He is overwhelming me with a tempest; that is, with the storms of wrath. He shows me no mercy. The idea seems to be, that God acted toward him not as a judge determining matters by rule of law, but as a sovereign - determining them by his own will. If it were a matter of law; if he could come before him as a judge, and maintain his cause there; if the case could be fairly adjudicated whether he deserved the calamities that came upon…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-21Verses 14-21 Job is still righteous in his own eyes, ch. 32:1, and this answer, though it sets forth the power and majesty of God, implies that the question between the afflicted and the Lord of providence, is a question of might, and not of right; and we begin to discover the evil fruits of pride and of a self-righteous spirit. Job begins to manifest a disposition to condemn God, that he may justify himself, for which he is afterwards reproved. Still Job…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17with a tempest: The words translated as “with a tempest” (bis’arah) might also mean besa‘arah (“for a hair,” meaning “for the smallest thing”). This would parallel "without cause."Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1716-17. would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice--who breaketh me (as a tree stripped of its leaves) with a tempest.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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