17 You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.

Other Translations of Job 10:17

King James Version

17 Thou renewest thy witnesses witnesses: that is, plagues against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

English Standard Version

17 You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.

The Message

17 You line up fresh witnesses against me. You compound your anger and pile on the grief and pain!

New King James Version

17 You renew Your witnesses against me, And increase Your indignation toward me; Changes and war are ever with me.

New Living Translation

17 Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:17

Commentary on Job 10:14-22

(Read 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 the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come.