Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
He 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.
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 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 he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause. 18 He will not allow me to take my breath, but fills me with bitterness. 19 If of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, who will summon me?
Names
Cross References
Job 7:19
How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 3:20
Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 27:2
As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.
Psalm 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
Psalm 88:7
Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Psalm 88:15-18
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.
Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:18-19
And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.
Hebrews 12:11
But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.