Job 10:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

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  • Ruth 1:21 : 21 I left here full, but the LORD has caused me to return empty-handed. Why do you call me‘Naomi,’ seeing that the LORD has opposed me, and the Sovereign One has caused me to suffer?”
  • Job 16:8 : 8 You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.
  • Job 16:11-16 : 11 God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men. 12 I was in peace, and he has shattered me. He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target; 13 his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior. 15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust; 16 my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
  • Job 19:6-9 : 6 know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net. 7 Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice. 8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths. 9 He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head. 10 He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree. 11 Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.
  • Ps 55:19 : 19 God, the one who has reigned as king from long ago, will hear and humiliate them.(Selah) They refuse to change, and do not fear God.
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 “From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed. It has never been taken into exile. Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs, never poured out from one jar to another. They are like wine which tastes like it always did, whose aroma has remained unchanged.
  • Zeph 1:12 : 12 At that time I will search through Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish the people who are entrenched in their sin, those who think to themselves,‘The LORD neither rewards nor punishes.’

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    7 Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

    8 You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

    9 His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

    10 People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

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    19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

    20 I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

    21 You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.

    22 You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

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    11 Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.

    12 His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

  • 3 These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

  • 2 I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

  • 10 Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

  • 18 An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • 10 because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.

  • 5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,

  • 26 For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

  • 3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

  • 24 Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

  • 17 he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

  • 27 I know where you live, and everything you do.

  • 28 I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.

  • 8 Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

  • 10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

  • 3 Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • 12 Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

  • 11 He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 10 For my enemies talk about me; those waiting for a chance to kill me plot my demise.

  • 3 Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.

  • 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

  • 2 Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

  • 8 All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

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    13 his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

    14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

  • 8 Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

  • 13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

  • 6 that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

  • 3 because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.

  • 20 You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.

  • 10 I hear many whispering words of intrigue against me. Those who would cause me terror are everywhere! They are saying,“Come on, let’s publicly denounce him!” All my so-called friends are just watching for something that would lead to my downfall. They say,“Perhaps he can be enticed into slipping up, so we can prevail over him and get our revenge on him.

  • 11 Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me.

  • 10 Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

  • 18 Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

  • 17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • 7 Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves.(Selah)

  • 19 But those who are my enemies for no reason are numerous; those who hate me without cause outnumber me.

  • 14 If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

  • 7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 10 My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long,“Where is your God?”