Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
New American Standard Bible
But saturates me with
King James Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
Holman Bible
but soaks me with bitter experiences.
International Standard Version
He won't let me catch my breath; instead, he fills me with bitterness.
A Conservative Version
He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
American Standard Version
He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
Amplified
“He will not allow me to catch my breath,
But fills and saturates me with bitterness.
Darby Translation
He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
Julia Smith Translation
He will not give me to draw in my spirit, for he will fill me with bitterness.
King James 2000
He will not permit me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He will not allow me to {catch} my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness.
Modern King James verseion
who will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He will not let my spirit be in rest, but filleth me with bitterness.
NET Bible
He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.
New Heart English Bible
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
The Emphasized Bible
He would not suffer me to recover my breath, for he would surfeit me with bitter things.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 9:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad
17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause. 18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief. 19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
Names
Cross References
Job 7:19
How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?
Job 3:20
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Job 27:2
By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
Psalm 39:13
Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
Psalm 88:7
The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
Psalm 88:15-18
I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
Lamentations 3:3
Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
Lamentations 3:15
He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
Lamentations 3:18-19
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
Hebrews 12:11
At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.