Job 10:17 BSB — MannaFest

Job 10:17

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

BSB

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ASV

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon 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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX (604)

Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, and multipliest Thy wrath: and pains war in me. HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION For 'God's witnesses' are they, who bear witness by the practice of holy works, what are the rewards of Truth that shall overtake the Elect. Hence too those, whom we see to have suffered for the sake of the Truth, we style in the Greek tongue, 'Martyrs,' i.e. witnesses. And the Lord says by John in the Angel's voice, Even in those days, wherein Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God was not only strange to him, but showed himself marvellous upon him, by bringing him into uncommon troubles and so making him prodigy, a wonder unto many. All wondered that God would inflict and that Job could bear so much. That which made his afflictions most grievous was that he felt God's indignation in them; it was this that made them taste so bitter and lie so heavy.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me - Margin, “that is, plagues.” The Hebrew is, “thy witnesses” - עדיך ‛ēdeykā. So the Vulgate. The Septuagint is, “renewing against me my examination,” τὴν ἐξέτασίν μου tēn ecetasin mou. Rabbi Levi supposes that the plague of the leprosy is intended. But the true meaning seems to be, that God sent upon him calamities which were regarded by his friends as “proofs” or “witnesses” that he was wicked, the public and solemn attestation of God, as they supposed, to the truth that he was eminently a bad man.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תְּחַדֵּ֬שׁ	te.cha.Desh	you renew	H2318 →
עֵדֶ֨יךָ׀	'e.Dei.kha	witnesses your	H5707 →
נֶגְדִּ֗י	neg.Di	before me	H5048 →
וְתֶ֣רֶב	ve.Te.rev	and you increase	H7235 →
כַּֽ֭עַשְׂךָ	Ka.'as.kha	vexation your	H3708 →
עִמָּדִ֑י	'i.ma.Di	with me	H5978 →
חֲלִיפ֖וֹת	cha.li.Fot	changes	H2487 →
וְצָבָ֣א	ve.tza.Va'	and an army	H6635 →
עִמִּֽי׃	'i.Mi	[are] with me	H5973 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Zephaniah 1:12
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
leads to
- Amos 6:1
  Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Jeremiah 48:11
  Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and…
- Ezekiel 8:12
  “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are…
Through
Psalms 55:19
God will hear and humiliate them— the One enthroned for the ages— Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 33:27
  The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
- Zephaniah 1:12
  And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
- Ecclesiastes 8:11
  When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
Through
Ruth 1:21
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
leads to
- 1 Samuel 2:7–8
  The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- Job 1:21
  saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job