Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.
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 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.
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 Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought. 18 He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things. 19 If of power, lo, the Strong One; And if of judgment -- who doth convene me?
Names
Cross References
Job 7:19
How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.
Job 3:20
Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 27:2
God liveth! He turned aside my judgment, And the Mighty -- He made my soul bitter.
Psalm 39:13
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Psalm 88:7
Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And with all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.
Psalm 88:15-18
I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.
Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:18-19
And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.
Hebrews 12:11
and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.