New Living Translation
Job 9:18
18He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows.
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
16And even if I summoned him and he responded, I’m not sure he would listen to me. 17For he attacks me with a storm and repeatedly wounds me without cause. He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows. 19If it’s a question of strength, he’s the strong one. If it’s a matter of justice, who dares to summon him to court? 20Though I am innocent, my own mouth would pronounce me guilty. Though I am blameless, it would prove me wicked.
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 won’t you leave me alone, at least long enough for me to swallow!
- Psalms 39:13Leave me alone so I can smile again before I am gone and exist no more.
- Psalms 88:7Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude
- Lamentations 3:3He has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
- Job 3:20“Oh, why give light to those in misery, and life to those who are bitter?
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
- Hebrews 12:11No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
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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