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Job 10:17
17You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger toward me, change and warfare are 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 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 guilty, woe to me! Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and conscious of my affliction. 16If my head is held high, You hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me. You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger toward me, change and warfare are with me. 18“Why then did You bring me out from the womb? I should have died so no eye would have seen me. 19If only I had never come into being, or been carried from womb to 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 seized me— it has become a witness; my leanness rises against me and testifies to my face.
- Ruth 1:21I went away full, but Adonai has brought me back empty. Why should you call me Naomi, since Adonai has testified against me and Shaddai has brought calamity on me?”
- Psalms 55:19He will redeem my soul in shalom from the battle against me. For many are striving with me.
- Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been at ease since his youth. He has settled like wine on its dregs. He has not been emptied from jar to jar, nor gone into exile. Therefore he retains his flavor, and his aroma has not changed.
- Zephaniah 1:12At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men whose spirits have hardened, who say in their hearts, ‘Adonai will do neither good nor evil.’
- Job 16:11God has handed me over to the ungodly, and tossed me into the hands of the wicked.
- Job 19:6then know that God has wronged me and encircled 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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