American Standard Version
Job 9:18
18He will not suffer me to take my breath,But filleth me with bitterness.
Job 9:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
- New International Version (NIV)He would not let me catch my breath but would overwhelm me with misery.
- English Standard Version (ESV)he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
Context of Job 9:18
16If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice. 17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause. He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness. 19Ifwe speakof strength, lo, he ismighty! And if of justice, Who, saith he, will summon me? 20Though I be righteous, mine own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Read all of Job 9Job 9:18 word by word
לֹֽא־יִ֭תְּנֵנִי הָשֵׁ֣ב רוּחִ֑י כִּ֥י יַ֝שְׂבִּעַ֗נִי מַמְּרֹרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 9:18
- Job 7:19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
- Psalms 39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
- Psalms 88:7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. [Selah
- Lamentations 3:3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
- Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
- Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
- Hebrews 12:11All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, even the fruit of righteousness.
Commentaries on Job 9:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18He 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18He will not suffer me to take my breath; - see the notes at Job 7:19.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-21Verses 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 afterwards reproved. Still Job…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-35Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case. It includes: A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32). The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20). A "mediator" (9:33–34). A question of accusation (9:12). A legal sentence (9:22). A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-35FIRST SERIES. 2. I know it is so of a truth--that God does not "pervert justice" (Job 8:3). But (even though I be sure of being in the right) how can a mere man assert his right--(be just) with God. The Gospel answers (Ro 3:26).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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