Job 9:18

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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 depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
  • Lam 3:15 : 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
  • Lam 3:18-19 : 18 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.
  • Heb 12:11 : 11 Now 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.
  • 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 judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 O 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 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.
  • Lam 3:3 : 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Lam 3:15-16
    2 verses
    79%

    15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

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

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

  • 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Job 16:12-14
    3 verses
    76%

    12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

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

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

  • Lam 3:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

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

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

    6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

    7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

  • 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

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

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

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

  • 3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

  • 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

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

  • 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

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

  • 13 From above 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.

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

  • Job 16:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

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

    8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

    9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

  • 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

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

  • 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

  • 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

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

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

  • 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

  • Job 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

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

    10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

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

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

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

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

  • 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • 18 The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

  • 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

  • 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

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