Job 9:17
New International Version
He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason.

New Living Translation
For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.

English Standard Version
For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;

Berean Standard Bible
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

King James Bible
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

New King James Version
For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.

New American Standard Bible
“For He bruises me with a storm And multiplies my wounds without cause.

NASB 1995
“For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause.

NASB 1977
“For He bruises me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.

Legacy Standard Bible
For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause.

Amplified Bible
“For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause.

Christian Standard Bible
He batters me with a whirlwind and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He batters me with a whirlwind and multiplies my wounds without cause.

American Standard Version
For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For with power he spares me in every hair of my head, and he increases my wounds without charge

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.

Contemporary English Version
He would strike me with a storm and increase my injuries for no reason at all.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.

English Revised Version
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He would knock me down with a storm and bruise me without a reason.

Good News Translation
He sends storms to batter and bruise me without any reason at all.

International Standard Version
For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He that would break me with a tempest, And multiply my wounds without cause;

Literal Standard Version
Because He bruises me with a storm, | And has multiplied my wounds for nothing.

Majority Standard Bible
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.

New American Bible
With a storm he might overwhelm me, and multiply my wounds for nothing;

NET Bible
he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

New Revised Standard Version
For he crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;

New Heart English Bible
For he bruises me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

World English Bible
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Young's Literal Translation
Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

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Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
16If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice. 17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause. 18He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.…

Cross References
Job 9:16
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

Job 16:12
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

Job 16:14
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

Job 30:22
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

Psalm 83:15
so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.


Treasury of Scripture

For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

For he

Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

Psalm 29:5
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

multiplieth

Job 1:14-19
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: …

Job 2:7,13
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown…

without cause

Job 2:3
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Job 16:17
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

Job 34:6
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

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Job 9
1. Job acknowledges God's justice
22. Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions














(17) He breaketh me . . .--This is one of the three passages in which this word is found, the other two being Genesis 3:15, "It shall bruise," &c., and Psalm 139:11, "If I say the darkness shall cover me."

Verse 17. - For he breaketh me with a tempest. "God" that is, "would not be likely patiently to hear my justification, and calmly to weigh it, when he is already overwhelming me with his wrath, breaking and crushing me (comp. Genesis 3:15, where the same word שׁוּפ is used) with a very storm of calamity." The sentiment can scarcely be justified, since it breathes something of a contamacious spirit. But this only shows that Job was not yet" made perfect through sufferings" (Hebrews 2:10). And multiplieth my wounds without cause. A further assertion, not of absolute sinlessness, but of comparative innocence - of the belief that he had done nothing to deserve such a terrible punishment as he is suffering (comp. Job 6:24, 29).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

He would crush me
יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי (yə·šū·p̄ê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 7779: To gape, snap at, to overwhelm

with a tempest
בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה (biś·‘ā·rāh)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8183: A hurricane

and multiply
וְהִרְבָּ֖ה (wə·hir·bāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

my wounds
פְצָעַ֣י (p̄ə·ṣā·‘ay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6482: A bruise, wound

without cause.
חִנָּֽם׃ (ḥin·nām)
Adverb
Strong's 2600: Gratis, devoid of cost, reason, advantage


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