Job 9:17
For he will crush me in a whirlwind and multiply my wounds, even without cause.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
In Context
16And if he should listen to me when I call, I would not believe that he had heard my voice.
18He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.
Cross References
Job 2:3And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you not considered my servant, Job, that there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil, and still retaining his innocence? Yet you have stirred me against him, so that I would afflict him to no purpose.”
Job 2:13And they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his sorrow was very great.
Job 16:12God has confined me with the immoral, and he has delivered me into the hands of the impious.
Job 16:17My face is swollen from weeping, and my eyelids have dimmed my vision.
Job 30:22You have lifted me up, and, placing me as if on the wind, you have thrown me down powerfully.
Job 34:6For, within my judgment, there is a lie: my vehement barbs are without any sin.”
Matthew Henry on Job 9:15-22
14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. 16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall… Read the whole commentary →