Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
who will not allow me to take my breath, but fills 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.
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 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 He who breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause; 18 who will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness. 19 If I speak of strength, lo, He is mighty! And if of judgment, who shall set me a time?
Names
Cross References
Job 7:19
Until when will You look away from me, nor let me alone until I swallow down my spittle?
Job 3:20
Why is light given to one who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 27:2
As God lives, He has taken away my judgment; and the Almighty has made my soul bitter.
Psalm 39:13
Look away from me, and I will smile before I go away and be no more.
Psalm 88:7
Your wrath lies hard on me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.
Psalm 88:15-18
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely He turned against me; He turns His hand all the day.
Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:18-19
And I said, My strength and my hope from Jehovah are gone.
Hebrews 12:11
Now chastening for the present does not seem to be joyous, but grievous. Nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.