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Job’s Plea to God

Job 10:17

In 11 translations

BSB
You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
KJV
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.witnesses: that is, plagues
WEB
You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
ASV
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
LSV
You renew Your witnesses against me, and multiply Your anger with me, || Changes and warfare [are] with me.
YLT
Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.
DBY
Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.
DRC
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me.
GNV
Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.
JPS
Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, and increasest Thine indignation upon me; host succeeding host against me.
LXXE
renewing against me my torture: and thou hast dealt with me in great anger, and thou hast brought trials upon me.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
תְּחַדֵּ֬שׁ עֵדֶ֨יךָ ׀ נֶגְדִּ֗י וְתֶ֣רֶב כַּֽ֭עַשְׂךָ עִמָּדִ֑י חֲלִיפ֖וֹת וְצָבָ֣א עִמִּֽי׃
LXX-Br
ἐπανακαινίζων ἐπʼ ἐμὲ τὴν ἔτασίν μου· ὀργῇ δὲ μεγάλῃ μοι ἐχρήσω, ἐπήγαγες δὲ ἐπʼ ἐμὲ πειρατήρια.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 16:8You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
  • Ruth 1:21I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
  • Psalms 55:19God will hear and humiliate them— the One enthroned for the ages— Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
  • Job 19:6–11then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me. Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice. He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He…
  • Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
  • Job 16:11–16God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked. I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target; His archers surround me.…
  • Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

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