Devine Scripture

Job 9:17

Job chapter 9 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.16If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.

v.17This passage

v.18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 16:17

    Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

  • Ezekiel 13:13

    Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.

  • Matthew 12:20

    A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.

  • Job 2:3

    And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

  • Job 16:12

    I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

  • Jeremiah 23:19

    Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, even his wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.