Job 9:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁר־בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer-biśʿārâ yəšûpēnî wə-hirbâ pəṣāʿay ḥinnām

Grammar Details

• *ʾăšer-biśʿārâ*: relative pronoun + preposition + feminine singular noun - who with a tempest
• *yəšûpēnî*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - he crushes me
• *wə-hirbâ*: conjunction + hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - and he multiplies
• *pəṣāʿay*: masculine plural noun + 1st person singular suffix - my wounds
• *ḥinnām*: adverb - without cause

Word Meanings

• *biśʿārâ*: in a storm, in a tempest, in a whirlwind
• *yəšûpēnî*: to crush, bruise, attack
• *hirbâ*: to multiply, increase, make many
• *pəṣāʿay*: wounds, injuries, bruises
• *ḥinnām*: without cause, for no reason, freely

Referenced Verses

• Job 2:3 : 3 Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
• Job 16:14 : 14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
• Job 34:6 : 6 Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar; My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
• Ps 25:3 : 3 Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
• Ps 29:5 : 5 The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
• Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
• Ps 83:15 : 15 So pursue them with your tempest, And terrify them with your storm.
• Isa 28:17 : 17 I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
• Jer 23:19 : 19 Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling tempest: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
• Ezek 13:13 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
• Matt 7:27 : 27 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."
• Matt 12:20 : 20 He won't break a bruised reed. He won't quench a smoking flax, Until he leads justice to victory.
• John 9:3 : 3 Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.
• John 15:25 : 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
• Job 16:17 : 17 Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.
• Job 30:22 : 22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
• Job 1:14-19 : 14 that there came a messenger to Job, and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them, 15 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 16 While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, "The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you." 17 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you." 18 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house, 19 and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you."
• Job 2:7 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
• Job 2:13 : 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
• Job 16:12 : 12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.