God’s Word Translation
Job 9:17
17He would knock me down with a storm and bruise me without a reason.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
- New King James Version (NKJV)For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.
Context of Job 9:17
15Even if I were right, I could not answer ⌞him⌟. I would have to plead for mercy from my judge. 16If I cried out and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to me. He would knock me down with a storm and bruise me without a reason. 18He would not let me catch my breath. He fills me with bitterness. 19If it is a matter of strength, then he is the mighty one. If it is about justice, who will charge me with a crime?
Read all of Job 9Job 9:17 word by word
אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 9:17
- Job 16:14He inflicts wound after wound on me. He lunges at me like a warrior.
- Psalms 29:5The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. The Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 42:7One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.
- Psalms 83:15the way fire burns a forest and flames set mountains on fire.
- Isaiah 28:17I will make justice a measuring line and righteousness a plumb line. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and floodwaters will wash away your hiding place.
- Jeremiah 23:19The storm of the Lord will come with his anger. Like a windstorm, it will swirl down on the heads of the wicked.
- Ezekiel 13:13“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: In my fury I’ll cause a storm to break out. In my anger rain will pour down, and hailstones will destroy the wall.
- Matthew 7:27Rain poured, and floods came. Winds blew and struck that house. It collapsed, and the result was a total disaster.”
- Matthew 12:20He will not break off a damaged cattail. He will not even put out a smoking wick until he has made justice victorious.
- Job 1:14a messenger came to Job. He said, “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
- Job 2:7Satan left the Lord’s presence and struck Job with painful boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
- Job 2:3The Lord asked Satan, “Have you thought about my servant Job? No one in the world is like him! He is a man of integrity: He is decent, he fears God, and he stays away from evil. And he still holds on to his principles. You’re trying to provoke me into ruining him for no reason.”
- Job 16:17although my hands have done nothing violent, and my prayer is sincere.
- Job 34:6I’m considered a liar in spite of my rights. I’ve been wounded by a deadly arrow, though I haven’t been disobedient.’
- Psalms 25:3No one who waits for you will ever be put to shame, but all who are unfaithful will be put to shame.
- John 9:3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. Instead, he was born blind so that God could show what he can do for 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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