Job 9:18
Who will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
In Context
17He who falleth upon me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause!
19If I look to strength, “Lo! here am I!” [[saith he,]] If to justice, “Who shall summon me to trial?”
Cross References
Job 7:19How long ere thou wilt look away from me, And let me alone, till I have time to breathe?
Psalms 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more!
Psalms 88:15I have been afflicted and languishing from my youth; I suffer thy terrors, and am distracted.
Lamentations 3:3Yea, against me doth he again and again turn his hand all the day long.
Lamentations 3:18And I say, “My confidence and my hope in Jehovah are gone!”
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 →