Job 9:17

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“For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.”

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BSBPD

“For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 9:17 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 1:14a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
  2. Job 2:3Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
  3. Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
  4. Job 2:13Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.
  5. Job 10:8Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
  6. Job 16:12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
  7. Job 16:14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
  8. Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
  9. Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
  10. Job 30:22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
  11. Job 33:10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
  12. Job 34:6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
  13. Psalms 25:3Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.
  14. Psalms 29:5The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
  15. Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
  16. Psalms 83:15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
  17. Isaiah 28:17I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
  18. Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
  19. Ezekiel 13:13Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
  20. Matthew 7:27The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
  21. Matthew 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
  22. John 9:3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
  23. John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

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