New King James Version
Job 10:17
17You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ever with me.
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 Living Translation (NLT)Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me.
Context of Job 10:17
15If I am wicked, woe to me; Even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; See my misery! 16If my head is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me. You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ever with me. 18‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me! 19I would have been as though I had not been. I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Read all of Job 10Job 10:17 word by word
תְּחַדֵּ֬שׁ עֵדֶ֨יךָ׀ נֶגְדִּ֗י וְתֶ֣רֶב כַּֽ֭עַשְׂךָ עִמָּדִ֑י חֲלִיפ֖וֹת וְצָבָ֣א עִמִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 10:17
- Job 16:8You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.
- Ruth 1:21I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
- Psalms 55:19God will hear, and afflict them, Even He who abides from of old. Selah Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God.
- Jeremiah 48:11“Moab has been at ease from his youth; He has settled on his dregs, And has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, Nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remained in him, And his scent has not changed.
- Zephaniah 1:12“And it shall come to pass at that time That I will search Jerusalem with lamps, And punish the men Who are settled in complacency, Who say in their heart, ‘The Lord will not do good, Nor will He do evil.’
- Job 16:11God has delivered me to the ungodly, And turned me over to the hands of the wicked.
- Job 19:6Know then that God has wronged me, And has surrounded me with His net.
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
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