Tree of Life Version
Job 9:17
17He who crushes me with a storm and multiplies my wounds for no 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 would not answer; I would implore the mercy of my Judge. 16Even if I called and He answered me, I would not believe that He would listen to my voice. He who crushes me with a storm and multiplies my wounds for no reason. 18He does not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. 19If it is a question of strength— certainly, He is the mighty One! If it is a matter of justice— who will summon me?
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אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 9:17
- Job 16:14He breaks through against me, breach after breach. He runs after me like a warrior.
- Psalms 29:5The voice of Adonai breaks the cedars. Yes, Adonai shatters cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 42:7My God, my soul is downcast within me! Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and from the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mitzar.
- Psalms 83:15As a fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
- Isaiah 28:17But I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line. Hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and water will overflow the hiding place.
- Jeremiah 23:19Look, a storm of Adonai goes out in fury, yes, a whirling tempest will swirl down on the head of the wicked.
- Ezekiel 13:13Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “I will cause a storm wind to burst out in My fury. There will be a down-pouring rain in My anger and great hailstones in destructive wrath.
- Matthew 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”
- Matthew 12:20A crushed reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, until He brings forth justice to victory.
- Job 1:14a messenger came to Job, saying, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing near them,
- Job 2:7So the satan departed from the presence of Adonai, and afflicted Job with painful boils, from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
- Job 2:3Then Adonai said to the satan, “Have you noticed My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and spurns evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, though you incited Me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
- Job 16:17yet no violence is in my hands and my prayer is pure.
- Job 34:6Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’
- Psalms 25:3Surely no one who waits for You will be ashamed. But the treacherous without cause will be ashamed.
- John 9:3Yeshua answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that the works of God might be brought to light 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
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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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