Job 10:17
15 If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
16 Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
- KJV
- Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
- WEB
- You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
- ASV
- Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
- DARBY
- Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.
- BLB
- You renew Your witnesses against me and increase Your indignation with me; changes and warfare are with me.
- ÅB
- du ville føre nye vitner mot meg og øke din harme mot meg, sende alltid nye hærflokker mot meg.
- OTB
- Du fornyer Dine vitner mot meg
Og øker Din vrede mot meg;
Vanskelighet etter vanskelighet kommer over meg. - B1930
- du vilde føre nye vidner mot mig og øke din harme mot mig, sende alltid nye hærflokker mot mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 16:8
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
Read in contextRuth 1:21
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
Read in contextJob 16:11–16
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
Read in contextJob 19:6–11
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Read in contextJeremiah 48:11
Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
Read in contextPsalms 55:19
God will hear and humiliate them— the One enthroned for the ages— Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
Read in contextZephaniah 1:12
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
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