Job: How Can I Contend with God?
Job 9:18
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
- KJV
- He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
- WEB
- He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
- ASV
- He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
- LSV
- He does not permit me to refresh my spirit, || But fills me with bitter things.
- YLT
- He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.
- DBY
- He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
- DRC
- He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.
- GNV
- He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
- JPS
- That would not suffer me to take my breath, but fill me with bitterness.
- LXXE
- For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- לֹֽא־יִ֭תְּנֵנִי הָשֵׁ֣ב רוּחִ֑י כִּ֥י יַ֝שְׂבִּעַ֗נִי מַמְּרֹרִֽים׃
- LXX-Br
- Οὐκ ἐᾷ γάρ με ἀναπνεῦσαι· ἐνέπλησε δέ με πικρίας,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 7:19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Lamentations 3:3Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
- Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Lamentations 3:18–19So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.” Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
- Psalms 88:7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
- Psalms 88:15–18From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every…
- 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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