Job 9:18 · KJV
“He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.”
— Job 9:18
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?
Job 9 — Context
If I had called, and he had answered me; {yet} would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
19If {I speak} of strength, lo, {he is} strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time {to plead}?
20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Cross References
Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}
Psalms 88:7
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted {me} with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Psalms 88:15-18
I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand {against me} all the day.
Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter {in} soul;
Lamentations 3:18-19
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: