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Job 9:18

He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Doubting;   God;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Breath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Breath;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He doesn’t let me catch my breathbut fills me with bitter experiences.
Hebrew Names Version
He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
King James Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
English Standard Version
he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
New Century Version
He would not let me catch my breath but would overwhelm me with misery.
New English Translation
He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.
Amplified Bible
"He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills and saturates me with bitterness.
New American Standard Bible
"He will not allow me to get my breath, But He saturates me with bitterness.
World English Bible
He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
Legacy Standard Bible
He will not allow me to get my breath,But saturates me with bitterness.
Berean Standard Bible
He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
Contemporary English Version
Before I could get my breath, my miseries would multiply.
Complete Jewish Bible
to the point where I couldn't even breathe — with such bitterness he could fill me!
Darby Translation
He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
Easy-to-Read Version
He would not let me catch my breath again. He would just give me more trouble.
George Lamsa Translation
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Good News Translation
He won't let me catch my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness.
Lexham English Bible
He will not allow me to catch my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness.
Literal Translation
who will not allow me to bring back my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He will not let my sprete be in rest, but fylleth me wt bytternesse.
American Standard Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
That would not suffer me to take my breath, but fill me with bitterness.
King James Version (1611)
Hee will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.
English Revised Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He grauntith not, that my spirit haue reste, and he fillith me with bittirnesses.
Update Bible Version
He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
Webster's Bible Translation
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
New King James Version
He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
New Living Translation
He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows.
New Life Bible
He will not let me get my breath, but fills me with much that is bitter.
New Revised Standard
he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.
Revised Standard Version
he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Young's Literal Translation
He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He will not allow me to get my breath, But saturates me with bitterness.

Contextual Overview

14 How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him? 15 Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me. 16 If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice. 17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause. 18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief. 19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day? 20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner. 21 I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will not: Job 7:19, Psalms 39:13, Psalms 88:7, Psalms 88:15-18, Lamentations 3:3, Lamentations 3:18

filleth me: Job 3:20, Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 3:19, Hebrews 12:11

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:10 - in bitterness of soul Esther 4:14 - enlargement Job 21:25 - in the bitterness Job 40:2 - he that reproveth Proverbs 14:10 - heart

Cross-References

Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.
Genesis 9:25
Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
Genesis 9:27
May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.
Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.
1 Chronicles 1:4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He will not suffer me to take my breath,.... Which some think refers to Job's disease, which was either an asthma, or a quinsy in his throat, which occasioned great difficulty in breathing: I should rather think the allusion is to the hot burning winds in those countries before mentioned, which sometimes blew so strongly as almost to take away a man's breath; so the above traveller u reports, that between Suez and Cairo (in Egypt) they had for a day's time and more so hot a wind, that they were forced to turn their backs to it, to take a little breath. The design of Job is to show, that his afflictions were continued, and were without any intervals; they were repeated so fast, and came so thick upon him, one after another, that he had no breathing time; the import of the phrase is the same with that in Job 7:19;

but filleth me with bitterness; to the full, to satiety, to loathing, as a man may be with a bitter potion, with wormwood drink, and water of gall, with bitter afflictions comparable to such, whereby Job's life was embittered to him, see Jeremiah 9:15.

u Travels. par. 1. B. 2. c. 34. p. 177.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He will not suffer me to take my breath; - see the notes at Job 7:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:18. He will not suffer me to take my breath — I have no respite in my afflictions; I suffer continually in my body, and my mind is incessantly harassed.


 
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