Job 9:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ he will not let me get my breath but fills me with bitterness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ He doesn’t let me catch my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ He does not permit my spirit to rest, and he fills me with bitterness.

Job 9:18 Cross References

Job 7:19

Will you not look away from me for a while, let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.

Hebrews 12:11

Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Lamentations 3:3

against me alone he turns his hand, again and again, all day long.

Psalm 88:7

Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah

Psalm 39:13

Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Job 27:2

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

Job 3:20

“Why is light given to one in misery and life to the bitter in soul,

Job 10:20

Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort

Job 13:26

For you write bitter things against me and make me reap the iniquities of my youth.

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, “Call me no longer Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me.

Jeremiah 9:14

but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.