Job 10:17

Job 10:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
• New International Version (NIV)You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
• English Standard Version (ESV)You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ever with me.

Context of Job 10:17

15If I am wicked, woe to me! And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery. 16Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion; And again You would show Your power against me. You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me. 18‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me! 19I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.’

Job 10:17 word by word

תְּחַדֵּ֬שׁ עֵדֶ֨יךָ׀ נֶגְדִּ֗י וְתֶ֣רֶב כַּֽ֭עַשְׂךָ עִמָּדִ֑י חֲלִיפ֖וֹת וְצָבָ֣א עִמִּֽי׃Read the interlinear

• You renewחָדַשׁchâdash · to renewH2318
• Your witnessesעֵד‛êd · witnessH5707
• againstנֶ֫גֶדneged · beforeH5048
• And increaseרָבָהrâbâh · to multiplyH7235
• Your angerכַּ֫עַשׂka‛as ka‛aώ · vexationH3708
• towardעִם‛im · withH5973
• Hardshipחֲלִיפָהchălîyphâh · changeH2487
• after hardshipצָבָאtsâbâ' tsebâ'âh · armyH6635

Cross-references for Job 10:17

• Job 16:8You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
• Ruth 1:21I went out full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has witnessed against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
• Psalms 55:19God will hear and answer them-- Even the one who sits enthroned from of old-- Selah. With whom there is no change, And who do not fear God.
• Jeremiah 48:11“Moab has been at ease since his youth; He has also been undisturbed, like wine on its dregs, And he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, And his aroma has not changed.
• Zephaniah 1:12It will come about at that time That I will search Jerusalem with lamps, And I will punish the men Who are stagnant in spirit, Who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good or evil!’
• Job 16:11God hands me over to ruffians And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
• Job 19:6Know then that God has wronged me And has closed His net around me.

Commentaries on Job 10:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Thou renewest thy witnesses - In this speech of Job he is ever referring to trials in courts of judicature, and almost all his terms are forensic. Thou bringest witnesses in continual succession to confound and convict me. Changes and war - I am as if attacked by successive troops; one company being wearied, another succeeds to the attack, so that I am harassed by continual warfare.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me - Margin, “that is, plagues.” The Hebrew is, “thy witnesses” - עדיך ‛ēdeykā So the Vulgate. The Septuagint is, “renewing against me my examination,” ̀ ̓́́ tēn ecetasin mou Rabbi Levi supposes that the plague of the leprosy is intended. But the true meaning seems to be, that God sent upon him calamities which were regarded by his friends as “proofs” or “witnesses” that he was wicked, the public and solemn…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-22Verses 14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. witnesses--His accumulated trials were like a succession of witnesses brought up in proof of his guilt, to wear out the accused. changes and war--rather, "(thou settest in array) against me host after host" (literally, "changes and a host," that is, a succession of hosts); namely, his afflictions, and then reproach upon reproach from his friends.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 10

• 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
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings