Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Job 9:17, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Job 16:14
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
- Job 2:3
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fe…
- Job 34:6
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
- John 15:25
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
- Matthew 7:27
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
- Psalms 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and grea…
- Job 1:14
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
- Psalms 83:15
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
- Psalms 29:5
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
- John 9:3
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
- Job 30:22
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
More to meet God in Job
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.