Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
He will not give me to draw in my spirit, for he will fill me with bitterness.
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.
Bible in Basic English
He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
Darby Translation
He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
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 Who will assail me with tempest, and he multiplied my wounds without cause. 18 He will not give me to draw in my spirit, for he will fill me with bitterness. 19 If for strength, behold him strong: if for judgment, who shall arraign me
Names
Cross References
Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not look away from me? wilt thou not desist from me even to my swallowing down my spittle?
Job 3:20
Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul?
Job 27:2
God lives, he removed my judgment; and the Almighty embittered my soul;
Psalm 39:13
Look away from me, and I shall be cheerful, before I shall go and I not be.
Psalm 88:7
Thy wrath lay upon me, and thou didst afflict with all thy breakers. Silence.
Psalm 88:15-18
I am poor and expiring from youth: I bore thy terrors; I shall be perplexed.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely he will turn back against me; he will turn his hand all the day.
Lamentations 3:15
He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink
Lamentations 3:18-19
And saying, My glory perished, and my hope from Jehovah:
Hebrews 12:11
And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.