Job 10:17

Verse

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

You repeat your arguments against me, you pour out more and more of your anger against me, you send fresh armies against me.

King James (Authorized) Version

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Translation for Translators

You constantly find more witnesses to testify that I have done what is wrong, and you continually become more angry/perturbed with me. It is as though you are always bringing new troops to attack me.

Unlocked Literal Bible

You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger against me; you attack me with fresh armies.

Noah Webster Bible

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

World English Bible

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.

Context

Job’s Plea to God

¹⁶Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me. ¹⁷You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

Summary

In this verse, Job expresses his deep distress and anguish, feeling overwhelmed by his suffering and the trials he is facing. He questions why God allows such pain and hardship in his life, struggling to understand the reasons behind his afflictions. Job's words reflect the human experience of grappling with suffering and seeking answers from God during times of intense struggle and despair. This verse captures the raw emotions of Job as he pours out his heart before God, seeking solace and understanding in the midst of his trials.

Commentary

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Thou renewest thy witnesses - In this speech of Job he is ever referring to trials in courts of judicature, and almost all his terms are forensic. Thou bringest witnesses in continual succession to confound and convict me. Changes and war - I am as if attacked by successive troops; one company being wearied, another succeeds to the attack, so that I am harassed by continual warfare.

John Gill Bible Commentary

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?.... Into this world; this act is rightly ascribed by Job to the Lord, as it is by David, Psa 22:9; which kind act of God Job complains of, and wishes it had never been, seeing his life was now so miserable and uncomfortable; here he returns to his former complaints, wishes, and expostulations, expressed with so much vehemence and passion in Job 10:3; and for which his friends blamed him, and endeavoured to convince him of his error in so doing; but it does not appear that their arguments carried any force in them with him, or had any effect upon him; he still continues in the same mind, and by repeating justifies what he had said; and thought he had sufficient reason to wish he had never been born, that he had died in the womb, since his afflictions were so very great and increasing, and since God pursued him as a fierce lion; and, according to his sense of things, his indignation against him appeared more and more, and his life was a continued succession of trouble and distress: and that I had given up the ghost; that is, in the womb, and had never been brought out of it, at least alive; or it may be rendered not as a wish, but as an affirmation, "I should have given up the ghost"; or, "so or then I should have expired" (e); if such care had not been taken of me, if God had not been so officious to me as to take me out of my mother's womb at the proper time, I should have died in it, and that would have been my grave; and which would have been more eligible than to come into the world, and live such a miserable life as I now live: and no eye had seen me! no eye would have seen him, had he not been taken out of the womb; or however if he had died directly, would not have seen him alive; and an abortive or stillborn child few see, or care to see; and had he been such an one, he had never been seen in the circumstances he now was; and by this he suggests, that he was now such a shocking sight as was not fit to be seen by men, and which would have been prevented had he died in the womb. (e) "expirabo", Montanus; "expirassem", Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens.

Job 10:17

Job’s Plea to God

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Commentary

Berean Standard Bible

You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.

Bible in Basic English

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

Free Bible Version

You repeat your arguments against me, you pour out more and more of your anger against me, you send fresh armies against me.

King James (Authorized) Version

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Translation for Translators

You constantly find more witnesses to testify that I have done what is wrong, and you continually become more angry/perturbed with me. It is as though you are always bringing new troops to attack me.

Unlocked Literal Bible

You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger against me; you attack me with fresh armies.

Noah Webster Bible

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

World English Bible

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Job 10:17

Verse

Context

Job’s Plea to God

Summary

Commentary

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Job 10:17

Job’s Plea to God

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary