Job 9:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This is the reason of his foregoing diffidence, that even when God seemed to answer him in words, yet the course of his actions towards him was of a quite contrary nature and tendency. With a tempest; as with a tempest, i.e. unexpectedly, violently, and irrecoverably. Without cause; not simply without any desert of his, or as if he had no sin in him, for he oft declares the contrary; but without any evident or special cause of such singular afflictions, i.e. any peculiar and extraordinary guilt, such as my friends charge me with.