Job 10:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 10:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou renewest thy witnesses against me - Margin, “that is, plagues.” The Hebrew is, “thy witnesses” - עדיך ‛ ēdeykā . So the Vulgate. The Septuagint is, “renewing against me my examination,...

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• Job 10:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; (r) changes and war [are] against me. (r) That is, diversity of diseases and in great abundance; showing that God ha...

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• Job 10:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? ( Job 10:3 )? Is God short-si...

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• Job 10:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  changes and war . successions, yea hostile successions. Figure of speech Hendiadys (App-6). one thing: i.e.. constant succession.

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• Job 10:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. Thou renewest thy witnesses - In this speech of Job he is ever referring to trials...

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• Job 10:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thou renewest thy witness— Accusations. Heath. Literally, says he, thy evidences; but, being a judicial term, it signifies indictments, charges: the phrase is somewhat analogous to the term i...

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• Job 10:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me. His accumulated trials were like a su...

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• Job 10:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Second Speech (concluded) 1-7. Job seeks the reason of his trial, and protests against God's treatment as inconsistent with the natural relations between Creator and created, and with God's...

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• Job 10:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou renewest thy witnesses against me. — Some understand this of the sores on Job’s person, which his friends regarded as witnesses — proofs of his guilt; but it seems more probable that the figur...

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• Job 10:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN Job 9:1-35 ; Job 10:1-22 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply...

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• Job 10:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Soul Bitterness Job 10:1-22 In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3 ; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between t...

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• Job 10:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Notwithstanding all this, Job appealed to God. Turning from his answer to Bildad, he poured out his agony as in the presence of the Most High. It was by no means a hopeful appeal, but it was an appea...

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• Job 10:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (14) В¶ If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. (15) If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion...

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• Job 10:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou renewest thy witnesses against me ,.... Not the devils, as some, nor Job's friends, as others; but rather afflictions, which were daily renewed, and frequently repeated, new troubles coming con...

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• Job 10:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me. Ver. 17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me ] These fresh witnesses were dev...

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• Job 10:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou renewest thy witnesses Thy judgments, which are the evidences both of my sins and of thy wrath; and increasest thine indignation That is, my miseries, the effects of thine indignation. Chan...

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• Job 10:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  AN ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH GOD (vv.1-22) Since there was no mediator, Job in this chapter (from verse 2 on) directs all of his words directly to God, reasoning with Him as regards why God should...

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• Job 10:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.   15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of...

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• Job 10:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thy witnesses, i.e. thy judgments, which are the witnesses and evidences, both of my sins, and of thy wrath. Thy indignation , i.e. my miseries, the effects of thine anger. These words are added t...

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• Job 10:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUED His speech takes the form rather of an expostulation with God in regard to his afflictions. The vehemence of his spirit reaches its height in this chapter. Does n...

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• Job 10:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 10:1 . I will leave my complaint upon myself. These words seem to imply, that he would bear his complaint in silence; but it immediately follows, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. O...

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• Job 10:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress? Job’s mistaken views of his sufferings I. As inconsistent with all his ideas of his Maker. 1. As inconsistent with His goodness. “Is it good...

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• Job 10:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 10:1-18 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is nov...

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• Job 10:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Renews his Complaint of his Affliction

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• Job 10:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 48:11 ; Job 16:11-16 ; Job 16:8 ; Job 19:6-11 ; Psalms 55:19 ; Ruth 1:21 ; Zephaniah 1:12

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• Job 10:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Witnesses — Thy judgments, which are the evidences both of my sins, and of thy wrath. Indignation — My miseries are the effects of thine anger. Army — Changes may denote the various kinds, and an a...

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