Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Job 9:18 in other translations
| BSB | He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness. |
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| WEB | He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. |
| ASV | He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness. |
| YLT | He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things. |
| DARBY | He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses. |
| BBE | He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief. |
| Webster | He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. |
What does Job 9:18 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 9:14-21
Job is still righteous in his own eyes, ch. 32:1, and this answer, though it sets forth the power and majesty of God, implies that the question between the afflicted and the Lord of providence, is a question of might, and not of right; and we begin to discover the evil fruits of pride and of a self-righteous spirit. Job begins to manifest a disposition to condemn God, that he may justify himself, for which he is…
Job 9:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 9:18
- Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
- Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
- Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
- Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
- Lamentations 3:18-19
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
- Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
- Psalms 88:15-18
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
- Psalms 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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Context
- Job 9:17
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
- Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
- Job 9:19
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
Job 9:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No me ha concedido que tome mi aliento; mas hame hartado de amarguras. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il ne me permet pas de reprendre haleine; car il me rassasie d’amertumes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | er erlaubt mir nicht, Atem zu holen, denn er sättigt mich mit Bitterkeiten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non concedit requiescere spiritum meum, et implet me amaritudinibus. |