Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
New American Standard Bible
And multiplies my wounds without cause.
King James Version
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Holman Bible
and multiplies my wounds without cause.
International Standard Version
For he crushes me with a storm, and keeps on wounding me for no reason.
American Standard Version
For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Amplified
“For He bruises me with a tempest
And multiplies my wounds without cause.
Bible in Basic English
For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.
Darby Translation
He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Julia Smith Translation
Who will assail me with tempest, and he multiplied my wounds without cause.
King James 2000
For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Lexham Expanded Bible
who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Modern King James verseion
He who breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He troubleth me so with the tempest, and woundeth me out of measure without a cause.
NET Bible
he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.
New Heart English Bible
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
The Emphasized Bible
For, with a tempest, would he fall upon me, and would multiply my wounds without need;
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.
Themes
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
16 If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I would not believe that he hearkened to my voice. 17 For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause. 18 He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Cross References
Job 2:3
And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity, although thou m
Job 16:14
He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs upon me like a giant.
Job 34:6
Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar. My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.
Job 1:14-19
that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
Job 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
Job 2:13
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights. And none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
Job 16:12
I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yea, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark.
Job 16:17
although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
Job 30:22
Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm.
Psalm 25:3
Yea, none who wait for thee shall be put to shame. They shall be put to shame who deal treacherously without cause.
Psalm 29:5
The voice of LORD breaks the cedars. Yea, LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalm 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the noise of thy waterfalls. All thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
Psalm 83:15
So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.
Isaiah 28:17
And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet. And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, the tempest of LORD, wrath, has gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest. It shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore thus says lord LORD: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath, and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
Matthew 7:27
And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell. And great was the fall of it.
Matthew 12:20
A bruised reed he will not break, and smoldering flax he will not quench, until he sends forth justice for victory.
John 9:3
Jesus answered, Neither this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of God might be manifested in him.
John 15:25
But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.