Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me.
Parallel translations
- WEB You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
- KJV Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
- BSB You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
- NKJV You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ever with me.
- NASB ‘You renew Your witnesses against me And increase Your anger toward me; Hardship after hardship is with me.
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Quick answer
Job feels God keeps bringing fresh witnesses and renewed anger against him, wave after wave. He describes his suffering as ongoing warfare.
Overview
Job pictures God multiplying accusations and assaults, as though changing armies attack him in succession. The relentless imagery shows how unending his trial feels. Though Job misreads God's heart, his endurance under such pressure is later commended, and points to the steadfastness God works in His suffering people (James 5:11; Romans 5:3-5).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ruth 1:21I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”
- Job 16:8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
- Zeph 1:12It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
- Job 19:6–11know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
- Jer 48:11“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
- Ps 55:19God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.
- Job 16:11–16God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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