God’s Word Translation
Job 9:18
18He would not let me catch my breath. He fills 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 cried out and he answered me, I do not believe that he would listen to me. 17He would knock me down with a storm and bruise me without a reason. He would not let me catch my breath. He fills me with bitterness. 19If it is a matter of strength, then he is the mighty one. If it is about justice, who will charge me with a crime? 20If I am righteous, my own mouth would condemn me. It would declare that I am corrupt even if I am a man of integrity.
Read all of Job 9Job 9:18 word by word
לֹֽא־יִ֭תְּנֵנִי הָשֵׁ֣ב רוּחִ֑י כִּ֥י יַ֝שְׂבִּעַ֗נִי מַמְּרֹרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 9:18
- Job 7:19Why don’t you stop looking at me long enough to let me swallow my spit?
- Psalms 39:13Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.
- Psalms 88:7Your rage lies heavily on me. You make all your waves pound on me. Selah
- Lamentations 3:3He beat me again and again all day long.
- Job 3:20“Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter,
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness. He has made me drink wormwood.
- Hebrews 12:11We don’t enjoy being disciplined. It always seems to cause more pain than joy. But later on, those who learn from that discipline have peace that comes from doing what is right.
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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