Job 9:18
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 9 connects to 10 cross-references. Job agrees that no one can contend with God but despairs because God's power makes a fair hearing impossible. He describes God's cosmic might in establishing heavens and earth while lamenting that the same power that could vindicate him also …
Other Translations
He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.
He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
Cross References
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: