Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
In Context
17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead ?
Cross References
Ruth 1:20And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
Job 7:19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
Psalms 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Lamentations 3:3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations 3:18And I said, My strength and my hope hath perished from the 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 →