Job 10:17 “You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me…”

Job 10:17

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

World English Bible

You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

American Standard Version

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou renuest thy plagues against me, and thou increasest thy wrath against me: changes and armies of sorowes are against me.

Darby Translation

Thou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions [of evil] and a time of toil are with me.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare [are] with me.

Bible in Basic English

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

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Cross references

“witnesses”

Job 16:8 Ruth 1:21

Job 16:8 · BSB

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

Ruth 1:21 · BSB

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.”

“changes”

Psalm 55:19 Jeremiah 48:11 Zephaniah 1:12

Psalm 55:19 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 48:11 · BSB

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 his aroma is unchanged.

Zephaniah 1:12 · BSB

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.’

“war”

Job 16:11–16 Job 19:6–11

Job 16:11–16 · BSB

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Job 19:6–11 · BSB

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

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