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Job 9:17
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He batters me with a whirlwindand multiplies my wounds without cause.
For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;
He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason.
he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
"For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause.
"For He bruises me with a storm And multiplies my wounds without cause.
For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.
For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause.
For He bruises me with a tempestAnd multiplies my wounds without cause.
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
He would strike me with a storm and increase my injuries for no reason at all.
He could break me with a storm; he could multiply my wounds for no reason,
He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
For he has crushed me with a tempest, and multiplied my wounds without cause.
He sends storms to batter and bruise me without any reason at all.
who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.
who breaks me with a tempest, and adds to my wounds without cause;
he troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.
He that would break me with a tempest, and multiply my wounds without cause;
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause,
Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
For in a whirlewynd he schal al to-breke me, and he schal multiplie my woundis, yhe, without cause.
For he breaks me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.
For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
For He crushes me with a storm, and hurts me more and more without a reason.
For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;
For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.
For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.
"For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For he: Job 16:14, Psalms 29:5, Psalms 42:7, Psalms 83:15, Isaiah 28:17, Jeremiah 23:19, Ezekiel 13:13, Matthew 7:27, Matthew 12:20
multiplieth: Job 1:14-19, Job 2:7, Job 2:13
without cause: Job 2:3, Job 16:17, Job 34:6, Psalms 25:3, John 9:3, John 15:25
Reciprocal: Job 6:4 - the terrors Job 33:9 - clean Job 34:5 - God Job 35:2 - My Job 40:2 - he that reproveth
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For he breaketh me with a tempest,.... Which rises suddenly, comes powerfully, and carries all before it irresistibly; hereby signifying the nature of his present sore afflictions, which came upon him at once, pressed him down, and utterly destroyed him, against which there was no standing: perhaps he may have some reference to the storm of wind that blew down the house, by which his children were destroyed. Schultens renders it, "a burning tempest" s, such as is common in the eastern countries, which Thevenot t often makes mention of; which kills a man at once, and his flesh becomes as black as a coal, and comes off of his bones, and is plucked off by the hand that would lift him up; with which a man is broken to pieces indeed, to which Job may allude:
and multiplieth my wounds without cause; referring, it may be, to the many boils and ulcers upon his body; though it may also respect the multiplicity of ways in which he had wounded or afflicted him, in his person, in his family, and in his substance, and which he says was done "without cause"; not without a cause or reason in God, who does nothing without one, though it may not be known to men; particularly in afflicting men, it is not without cause or reason; it he punishes men, it is for sin; if he rebukes and chastises his people, it is for their transgressions; to bring them to a sense of them, to humble them for them, to bring them off from them, or to prevent them, or purge them away, and to try their graces, wean them from the world, and fit them for himself: but Job's afflictions were without any such cause intimated by his friends; it was not hypocrisy, nor any notorious sin or sins he had been guilty of, and secretly lived and indulged himself in, as they imagined. Job here suggests his innocence, which he always insisted upon, and refers his afflictions to the sovereign will of God, and to some hidden cause in his own breast, unknown to himself and others: however, so long as he dealt with him after this manner, he could not believe his prayers were heard by him.
s בשערה "in turbine ardenti", Schultens. t Travels, par. 2. B. 1. c. 12. p. 54. B. 3. c. 5. p. 135.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For 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 him, he would be willing to enter into such a trial. But where the matter was determined solely by will, and God acted as a sovereign, doing as he pleased, and giving no account of his matters to anyone, then it would be useless to argue the cause. He would not know what to expect, or understand the principles on which an adjudication would be made. It is true that God acts as a sovereign, but he does not act without reference to law. He dispenses his favors and his judgments as he pleases, but he violates none of the rules of right. The error of Job was the common error which people commit, that if God acts as a sovereign, he must of course act regardless of law, and that it is vain to plead with him or try to please him. But sovereignty is not necessarily inconsistent with respect for law; and He who presides with the most absolute power over the universe, is He who is most directed by the rule of right. In Him sovereignty and law coincide; and to come to Him as a sovereign, is to come with the assurance that supreme rectitude will be done.
And multiplieth my wounds without cause - That is, without sufficient reason. This is in accordance with the views which Job had repeatedly expressed. The main ground of his complaint was, that his sufferings were disproportionate to his faults.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 9:17. He 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.
