Job 9:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:19 : 19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?
  • Lam 3:15 : 15 He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
  • Lam 3:18-19 : 18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord. 19 Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.
  • Job 3:20 : 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
  • Job 27:2 : 2 By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
  • Ps 88:7 : 7 The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
  • Ps 88:15-18 : 15 I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. 16 The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. 17 They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. 18 You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
  • Lam 3:3 : 3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

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    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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