Job 10 · Verse 17

Job 10:17

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
Job 10:17, King James Version

Job 10:17 in other translations

BSBYou produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
WEBYou renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
ASVThou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
YLTThou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare are with me.
DARBYThou renewest thy witnesses before me and increasest thy displeasure against me; successions of evil and a time of toil are with me.
BBEThat you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
WebsterThou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thy indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

What does Job 10:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
17. witnesses--His accumulated trials were like a succession of witnesses brought up in proof of his guilt, to wear out the accused. changes and war--rather, "(thou settest in array) against me host after host" (literally, "changes and a host," that is, a succession of hosts); namely, his afflictions, and then reproach upon reproach from his friends.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses - In this speech of Job he is ever referring to trials in courts of judicature, and almost all his terms are forensic. Thou bringest witnesses in continual succession to confound and convict me. Changes and war - I am as if attacked by successive troops; one company being wearied, another succeeds to the attack, so that I am harassed by continual warfare.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 10:14-22

Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy…

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Job 10:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תְּחַדֵּ֬שׁte.cha.Deshyou renewH2318
עֵדֶ֨יךָ\׀'e.Dei.khawitnesses yourH5707
נֶגְדִּ֗יneg.Dibefore meH5048
וְתֶ֣רֶבve.Te.revand you increaseH7235
כַּֽ֭עַשְׂךָKa.'as.khavexation yourH3708
עִמָּדִ֑י'i.ma.Diwith meH5978
חֲלִיפ֖וֹתcha.li.FotchangesH2487
וְצָבָ֣אve.tza.Va'and an armyH6635
עִמִּֽי\׃'i.Mi[are] with meH5973

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 10:17

  • Job 16:8

    And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

  • Ruth 1:21

    I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

  • Job 16:11-16

    God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. …

  • Job 19:6-11

    Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. …

  • Jeremiah 48:11

    Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

  • Psalms 55:19

    God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

  • Zephaniah 1:12

    And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
witnesses. that is, plagues.
16:8; Ru 1:21
changes.I am as if attacked by successive troops; if one company be wearied, another succeeds to the attack.
Ps 55:19; Jer 48:11; Zep 1:12
war.
16:11-16; 19:6-11

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Context

  • Job 10:16

    For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

  • Job 10:17

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

  • Job 10:18

    Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

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Job 10:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Renuevas contra mí tus plagas, y aumentas conmigo tu furor, remudándose sobre mí ejércitos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tu renouvelles tes témoins contre moi, et tu multiplies ton indignation contre moi. Une succession de maux et un temps de misère sont avec moi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Du würdest deine Zeugen mir gegenüber erneuern und deinen Zorn wider mich mehren, stets frische Scharen und ein Heer wider mich entbieten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Instauras testes tuos contra me, et multiplicas iram tuam adversum me, et pœnæ militant in me.