New Living Translation
Job 9:17
17For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me 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.
- 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 would have no defense. I could only plead for mercy. 16And even if I summoned him and he responded, I’m not sure he would listen to me. For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause. 18He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows. 19If it’s a question of strength, he’s the strong one. If it’s a matter of justice, who dares to summon him to court?
Read all of Job 9Job 9:17 word by word
אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 9:17
- Job 16:14Again and again he smashes against me, charging at me like a warrior.
- Psalms 29:5The voice of the Lord splits the mighty cedars; the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 42:7I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.
- Psalms 83:15chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
- Isaiah 28:17I will test you with the measuring line of justice and the plumb line of righteousness. Since your refuge is made of lies, a hailstorm will knock it down. Since it is made of deception, a flood will sweep it away.
- Jeremiah 23:19Look! The Lord’s anger bursts out like a storm, a whirlwind that swirls down on the heads of the wicked.
- Ezekiel 13:13“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will sweep away your whitewashed wall with a storm of indignation, with a great flood of anger, and with hailstones of fury.
- Matthew 7:27When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”
- Matthew 12:20He will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle. Finally he will cause justice to be victorious.
- Job 1:14a messenger arrived at Job’s home with this news: “Your oxen were plowing, with the donkeys feeding beside them,
- Job 2:7So Satan left the Lord’s presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot.
- Job 2:3Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil. And he has maintained his integrity, even though you urged me to harm him without cause.”
- Job 16:17Yet I have done no wrong, and my prayer is pure.
- Job 34:6I am innocent, but they call me a liar. My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.’
- Psalms 25:3No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.
- John 9:3“It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen 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
Topics related to Job 9:17
In the dictionaries
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
New Living Translation — © 1996, 2004, 2015 Tyndale House Foundation
Commentaries