Job 9:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

📖 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 And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart unto My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? and still he is keeping hold on his integrity, and thou dost move Me against him to swallow him up for nought!'
• Job 16:14 : 14 He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one.
• Job 34:6 : 6 Against my right do I lie? Mortal `is' mine arrow -- without transgression.'
• Ps 25:3 : 3 Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.
• Ps 29:5 : 5 The voice of Jehovah `is' shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.
• Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.
• Ps 83:15 : 15 So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.
• Isa 28:17 : 17 And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow.
• Jer 23:19 : 19 Lo, a whirlwind of Jehovah -- Fury hath gone out, even a piercing whirlwind, On the head of the wicked it stayeth.
• Ezek 13:13 : 13 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury -- to consume.
• Matt 7:27 : 27 and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'
• Matt 12:20 : 20 a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,
• John 9:3 : 3 Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;
• John 15:25 : 25 but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
• Job 16:17 : 17 Not for violence in my hands, And my prayer `is' pure.
• Job 30:22 : 22 Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.
• Job 1:14-19 : 14 And a messenger hath come in unto Job and saith, `The oxen have been plowing, and the she-asses feeding by their sides, 15 and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.' 16 While this `one' is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Fire of God hath fallen from the heavens, and burneth among the flock, and among the young men, and consumeth them, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.' 17 While this `one' is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.' 18 While this `one' is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Thy sons and thy daughters are eating, and drinking wine, in the house of their brother, the first-born. 19 And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare `it' to thee.'
• Job 2:7 : 7 And the Adversary goeth forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smiteth Job with a sore ulcer from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
• Job 2:13 : 13 And they sit with him on the earth seven days and seven nights, and there is none speaking unto him a word when they have seen that the pain hath been very great.
• Job 16:12 : 12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.