The Motif Searcher: one word across the Douay, the Latin, the Greek and the Hebrew.

Job 9:17

For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause.

Challoner: Without causeThat is, without my knowing the cause: or without any crime of mine.

Open Job 9:17 in the Motif Searcher, word by word across all five texts →Show on the spiral →

The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): In turbine enim conteret me, et multiplicabit vulnera mea, etiam sine causa.
Septuagint (Swete): μὴ γνόφῳ με ἐκτρίψῃ; πολλὰ δέ μου τὰ συντρίμματα πεποίηκεν διὰ κενῆς.
Hebrew (WLC): אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂעָרָ֥ה יְשׁוּפֵ֑נִי וְהִרְבָּ֖ה פְצָעַ֣י חִנָּֽם

Haydock's commentary

Without cause. That is, without my knowing the cause; or without any crime of mine. (Challoner)

To argue from my afflictions, that I am a criminal, is unjust, chap. ii. 3.

"Notions mistaken, reasonings ill apply'd,

And sophisms that conclude on either side." (Pope, Pleasures, &c.)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.

The Fathers on this verse

St Augustine A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness, Why Job Was So Great a Sufferer

And when he says concerning the Lord, “For many bruises hath He inflicted upon me without a cause,” observe that his words are not, He hath inflicted none with a cause ; but, “many without a cause.” For it was not because of his manifold sins that these many bruises were inflicted on him, but in order to make trial of his patience. For on account of his sins, indeed, without which, as he acknowledges in another passage, he was certainly not, he yet judges that he ought to have suffered less.