Job 9:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.”
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BSBPD
“He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 9:18 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ruth 1:20“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 7:19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalms 88:7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
- Psalms 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- Jeremiah 9:14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
- Lamentations 3:3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:18So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
- Hebrews 12:11No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.
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