Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
Job 10:17 stands within the extended debate or colloquy between Job and his three friends about his afflictions and about the cause and object of human suffering. That discussion spans Job 3-31, also described as Job 4-31. It unfolds in three rounds of speeches.
The word rendered renewest means to make new, renew, repair, or restore. Here it describes God renewing witnesses against Job. In this setting the verse belongs to Job's own answer and account of affliction in which he justifies his complaints and voices perplexity. Conscious of his own integrity, he cannot understand God renewing witnesses and increasing indignation against him with changes and war, yet he does not charge God foolishly.
Affliction and suffering do not in themselves prove personal sin or that a person is under God's displeasure. Job's friends judged him wrongly by treating his suffering as evidence of sin. The book to which the verse belongs presents suffering as part of God's discipline. Through Job's trial God, who saw the end from the beginning, was working out what would glorify Himself forever, give comfort and hope to thousands of sufferers, and prove a blessing to Job himself.
Job 10:17 stands within the extended debate or colloquy between Job and his three friends about his afflictions and about the cause and object of human suffering. That discussion spans Job 3-31, also described as Job 4-31. It unfolds in three rounds of speeches.
The word rendered renewest means to make new, renew, repair, or restore. Here it describes God renewing witnesses against Job. In this setting the verse belongs to Job's own answer and account of affliction in which he justifies his complaints and voices perplexity. Conscious of his own integrity, he cannot understand God renewing witnesses and increasing indignation against him with changes and war, yet he does not charge God foolishly.
Affliction and suffering do not in themselves prove personal sin or that a person is under God's displeasure. Job's friends judged him wrongly by treating his suffering as evidence of sin. The book to which the verse belongs presents suffering as part of God's discipline. Through Job's trial God, who saw the end from the beginning, was working out what would glorify Himself forever, give comfort and hope to thousands of sufferers, and prove a blessing to Job himself.