Job 9:17 · KJV
“For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.”
— Job 9:17
If I had called, and he had answered me; {yet} would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Job 9 — Context
Whom, though I were righteous, {yet} would I not answer, {but} I would make supplication to my judge.
16If I had called, and he had answered me; {yet} would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
19If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?
Cross References
Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Job 2:3
And 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. {to destroy...: Heb. to swallow him up}
Job 34:6
Should I lie against my right? my wound {is} incurable without transgression. {my wound: Heb. mine arrow}
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Psalms 83:15
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
Psalms 25:3
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
Matthew 12:20
A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore 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}.