Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version He would not let me catch my breath but would overwhelm me with misery. New Living Translation He will not let me catch my breath, but fills me instead with bitter sorrows. English Standard Version he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness. Berean Standard Bible He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness. King James Bible He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. New King James Version He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills me with bitterness. New American Standard Bible “He will not allow me to get my breath, But He saturates me with bitterness. NASB 1995 “He will not allow me to get my breath, But saturates me with bitterness. NASB 1977 “He will not allow me to get my breath, But saturates me with bitterness. Legacy Standard Bible He will not allow me to get my breath, But saturates me with bitterness. Amplified Bible “He will not allow me to catch my breath, But fills and saturates me with bitterness. Christian Standard Bible He doesn’t let me catch my breath but fills me with bitter experiences. Holman Christian Standard Bible He doesn’t let me catch my breath but soaks me with bitter experiences. American Standard Version He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And he has not left me that my spirit may rest, because bitterness filled me, and wormwood made me drunk Brenton Septuagint Translation For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness. Contemporary English Version Before I could get my breath, my miseries would multiply. Douay-Rheims Bible He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness. English Revised Version He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. GOD'S WORD® Translation He would not let me catch my breath. He fills me with bitterness. Good News Translation He won't let me catch my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness. International Standard Version He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness. JPS Tanakh 1917 That would not suffer me to take my breath, But fill me with bitterness. Literal Standard Version He does not permit me to refresh my spirit, | But fills me with bitter things. Majority Standard Bible He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness. New American Bible He would not allow me to draw breath, but might fill me with bitter griefs. NET Bible He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness. New Revised Standard Version he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness. New Heart English Bible He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. Webster's Bible Translation He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. World English Bible He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness. Young's Literal Translation He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things. Additional Translations ... Context Job: How Can I Argue with God?…17For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause. 18He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness. 19If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?… Cross References Job 7:19 Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle? Job 10:20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, Job 13:26 For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth. Job 27:2 "As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice--the Almighty, who has embittered my soul-- Treasury of Scripture He will not suffer me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness. will not Job 7:19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Psalm 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. Psalm 88:7,15-18 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah… filleth me Job 3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Lamentations 3:15,19 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood… Hebrews 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Jump to Previous Allow Bitter Bitterness Breath Catch Fill Filleth Fills Full Grief Misery Overwhelm Refresh Regain Spirit Suffer SufferethJump to Next Allow Bitter Bitterness Breath Catch Fill Filleth Fills Full Grief Misery Overwhelm Refresh Regain Spirit Suffer SufferethJob 9 1. Job acknowledges God's justice22. Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions (18) Take my breath.--The action being that of breathing again after complete exhaustion--recovering breath and the power to breathe, &c. "If I say I am perfect, it also shall prove me perverse by the very act of saying so; because for man to maintain his righteousness before God is at once to proclaim his iniquity. The finite cannot come into competition with the Infinite, nor measure itself therewith."Verse 18. - He will not suffer me to take my breath. "He gives me no breathing-space," that is, "no time of relaxation or refreshment. My existence is one continual. misery." (comp. Job 7:3-6, 13-19). But filleth me with bitterness; literally, with bitter things or bitterness (Hebrew, מַמְּר ורִים). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew He does notלֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no let יִ֭תְּנֵנִי (yit·tə·nê·nî) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular Strong's 5414: To give, put, set me catch הָשֵׁ֣ב (hā·šêḇ) Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again my breath, רוּחִ֑י (rū·ḥî) Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit but כִּ֥י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction overwhelms me יַ֝שְׂבִּעַ֗נִי (yaś·bi·‘a·nî) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited with bitterness. מַמְּרֹרִֽים׃ (mam·mə·rō·rîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4472: A bitterness, calamity Links Job 9:18 NIVJob 9:18 NLT Job 9:18 ESV Job 9:18 NASB Job 9:18 KJV Job 9:18 BibleApps.com Job 9:18 Biblia Paralela Job 9:18 Chinese Bible Job 9:18 French Bible Job 9:18 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 9:18 He will not allow me to catch (Jb) |
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