Job 9:18
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He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
In other translations
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
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- Job 7:19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
- Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Psalm 88:15-1815 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.15 From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. 16 Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. 17 All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side. 18 You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
- Lamentations 3:18-1918 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.” 19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
- Psalm 88:7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
- Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Hebrews 12:11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.No 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.
- Psalm 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Lamentations 3:3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
- Job 27:2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
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