Job 9:17 Meaning and Explanation
“For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.”
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What Does Job 9:17 Mean?
Job voices the raw pain underneath his theology. He feels broken as by a tempest, his wounds multiplied, and, most painful of all, without cause that he can discern. He has searched his life and found no sin to explain such suffering, which only deepens the mystery.
These are not the words of a man who has abandoned God, but of one who clings to Him while bewildered by Him. The reader, who has seen the opening of the book, knows Job's affliction is not punishment, though Job cannot. His honest lament is welcome before God. And in time another Sufferer would be wounded truly without cause, that our wounds might be healed.
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What does Job 9:17 mean?
Job feels God crushing him with a storm and multiplying his wounds for no reason he can see.