# For he breaks me with a tempest

Job compares his troubles from God to the effects of a tempest. Alternate translation: "He injures me as if with a tempest" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# tempest

a powerful or violent storm

# multiplies my wounds

"gives me many wounds" or "wounds me again and again"

# without cause

"even though I have not given him cause to do so" or "even though I am innocent"