For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
Parallel translations
- WEB For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- KJV For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- NKJV For He crushes me with a tempest, And multiplies my wounds without cause.
- NASB “For He bruises me with a storm And multiplies my wounds without cause.
- NLT For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause.
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Quick answer
Job complains that God crushes him with a storm and multiplies his wounds without cause. He feels struck down for no reason he can see.
Overview
Job describes God as overwhelming him like a tempest, adding wound upon wound. The phrase 'without cause' echoes the narrator's and God's own assessment that Job is afflicted without cause (Job 2:3). Job senses a truth he cannot fully grasp: his suffering is not deserved punishment, a key to the book's message.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 20
- 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 incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
- Job 34:6Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
- Job 1:14–19a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
- Jer 23:19Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
- 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 30:22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
- Ps 83:15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
- John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
- Ezek 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.
- 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.
- Isa 28:17I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
- Ps 29:5The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
- Matt 7:27The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its collapse!”
- Ps 25:3Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.
- Matt 12:20A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.
- Job 16:12I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
- Job 16:17yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Ps 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- 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.
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