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Job Chapter 9 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV Job 9:18

He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
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BBE Job 9:18

He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.
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DARBY Job 9:18

He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
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KJV Job 9:18

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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WBT Job 9:18

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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WEB Job 9:18

He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
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YLT Job 9:18

He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - He will not suffer me to take my breath. "He gives me no breathing-space," that is, "no time of relaxation or refreshment. My existence is one continual. misery." (comp. Job 7:3-6, 13-19). But filleth me with bitterness; literally, with bitter things or bitterness (Hebrew, מַמְּר ורִים).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Take my breath.--The action being that of breathing again after complete exhaustion--recovering breath and the power to breathe, &c. "If I say I am perfect, it also shall prove me perverse by the very act of saying so; because for man to maintain his righteousness before God is at once to proclaim his iniquity. The finite cannot come into competition with the Infinite, nor measure itself therewith."