Job 9:18
He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
In Context
17He, who crusheth me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
19Be it a question of strength, lo, [he is] strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?
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 wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Psalms 39:13Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
Lamentations 3:3Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
Lamentations 3:18And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
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 →