Job 9:18
Good News Translation
He won't let me catch my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness.

New Revised Standard Version
he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Contemporary English Version
Before I could get my breath, my miseries would multiply.

New American Bible
He would not allow me to draw breath, but might fill me with bitter griefs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

will not

Job 7:19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

Psalm 39:13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psalm 88:7,15-18 Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me. . . .

Lamentations 3:3,18 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. . . .

filleth me

Job 3:20 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

Lamentations 3:15,19 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. . . .

Hebrews 12:11 Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
17For he shall crush me in a whirlwind, and multiply my wounds even without cause. 18He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.19If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me.…
Cross References
Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

Job 10:20
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Job 13:26
For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.

Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who hath brought my soul to bitterness,

Job 9:17
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