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Job: How Can I Contend with God?

Job 9:17

In 11 translations

BSB
For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
KJV
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
WEB
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
ASV
For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.
LSV
Because He bruises me with a storm, || And has multiplied my wounds for nothing.
YLT
Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.
DBY
He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
DRC
For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.
GNV
For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause.
JPS
He that would break me with a tempest, and multiply my wounds without cause;
LXXE
Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made my bruises many without cause.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם׃
LXX-Br
Μὴ γνόφῳ με ἐκτρίψῃ· πολλὰ δέ μου τὰ συντρίμματα πεποίηκε διακενῆς.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 16:14He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
  • 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…
  • Job 34:6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
  • Job 1:14–19a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell…
  • 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.
  • Matthew 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
  • Psalms 83:15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
  • Psalms 29:5The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
  • John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
  • Psalms 25:3Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.
  • Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
  • Job 30:22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

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