Job 9:18

American Standard Version (1901)

He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:19 : 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
  • Lam 3:15 : 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
  • Lam 3:18-19 : 18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. 19 Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, [even the fruit] of righteousness.
  • Job 3:20 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
  • Job 27:2 : 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
  • Ps 88:7 : 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. {{Selah
  • Ps 88:15-18 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.
  • Lam 3:3 : 3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

  • Lam 3:15-16
    2 verses
    79%

    15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

    16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

  • 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Job 16:12-14
    3 verses
    76%

    12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

    13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

  • Lam 3:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

    5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

  • 19If [we speak] of strength, lo, [he is] mighty! And if of justice, Who, [saith he], will summon me?

  • 19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

    9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

  • 3(For my life is yet whole in me, And the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

  • 19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 2How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

  • 22Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it] ; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.

  • 15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

  • 13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Job 16:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

    8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

    9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

  • 19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

  • 19Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

  • 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

  • 9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

  • 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

  • 10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • Job 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • 20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • 28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

  • 2Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • 18Jehovah hath chastened me sore; But he hath not given me over unto death.

  • 11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.

  • 19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;

  • 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;