Job 9:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ He alloweth not my spirit to rest: and he filleth me with bitterness.

Job 9:18 Cross References

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 thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

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 him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

Job 7:19

How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!”

Psalm 88:7

Thy wrath lies heavy upon me, and thou dost overwhelm me with all thy waves. Selah

Jeremiah 9:14

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

Lamentations 3:15

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

Lamentations 3:3

surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.

Hebrews 12:11

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Ruth 1:20

She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.