Job 9:18
He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
In Context
17For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
19If of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?
Cross References
Ruth 1:20And she said to them, Call me not Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Job 7:19How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Psalms 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.
Lamentations 3:3Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.
Lamentations 3:18And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:15-22
14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? 15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. 16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall… Read the whole commentary →