Job 9:17
For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
In Context
16And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
18He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.
Cross References
Job 2:3And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple, and upright, and fearing Cod, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence ? But thou hast moved me against him, that I sho uld afflict him without cause.
Job 2:13And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job 16:12God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:17My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.
Job 30:22Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.
Job 34:6For in judging me there is a lie : my arrow is violent 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 →