Job 9:17

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Summary

Job 9:17

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

For he

Multiplieth

Job 1:14

Job 2:7

Without cause

General references

Psalm 83:15

Bible References

For he

He hath given me one wound upon another, and is fallen upon me like a giant.

The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedar trees; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.

One deep calleth another with the voice of thy water-pipes, all thy waves and water floods are gone over me.

Persecute them even so with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Righteousness will I set up again in the balance, and judgment in the weights. The tempest of hail shall take away your refuge, that ye have to deceive withal: and the overflowing waters shall break down your strongholds of dissimulation."

Behold, the stormy weather of the LORD - that is, his indignation - shall go forth, and shall fall down upon the head of the ungodly.

Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: I will break out in my wrathful displeasure with a stormy wind, so that in mine anger there shall come a mighty shower of rain and hailstones in my wrath, to destroy withal.

And abundance of rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and flax that beginneth to burn he shall not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

Multiplieth

there came a messenger unto Job, and said, "While the oxen were a plowing, and the asses going in the pasture beside them,

So went Satan forth from the LORD, and smote Job with marvelous sore boils, from the sole of the foot unto his crown;

Without cause

Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, how that he is an innocent and virtuous man such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godliness."

"Howbeit there is no wickedness in my hands, and my prayer is clean.

I must needs be a liar, though my cause be right, and violently am I plagued whereas I made no fault.'

For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed; but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to confusion.

Jesus answered, "Neither this man hath sinned, nor yet his father and mother: but that the works of God should be showed on him.

Even that the saying might be fulfilled that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

General references

Persecute them even so with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.