For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
Parallel translations
- WEB For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
- BSB For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply 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 breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- Job 2:3And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
- Job 34:6Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- Job 1:14–19And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
- Jer 23:19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
- Job 2:7So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
- Job 30:22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
- Ps 83:15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- John 15:25But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
- Ezek 13:13Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
- Job 2:13So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Isa 28:17Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
- Ps 29:5The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
- Matt 7:27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Ps 25:3Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
- Matt 12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
- Job 16:12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
- Job 16:17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
- Ps 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- John 9:3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
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