Job 9:17
15 For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
16 If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
18 He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
19 If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him ?
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Compare
- BSB
- For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- KJV
- For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- WEB
- For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- ASV
- For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- DARBY
- He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- BLB
- [He] who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- ÅB
- han som ville knuse meg i storm og uten årsak ramme meg med sår på sår,
- OTB
- Han ville knuse meg med en storm
og mangfoldiggjøre mine sår uten grunn. - B1930
- han som vilde knuse mig i storm og uten årsak ramme mig med sår på sår,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 16:14
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
Read in contextJob 2:3
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
Read in contextJob 34:6
Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
Read in contextJob 2:13
Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
Read in contextEzekiel 13:13
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
Read in contextJohn 9:3
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
Read in contextJob 30:22
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:19
Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
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