Job 9:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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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  • 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 made me drunken 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.

  • 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%

    12I 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.

    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 set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

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

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

  • 19He 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.

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

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

  • 19How long wilt thou not depart 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 darkness, 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 dissolvest my substance.

  • 15What 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.

  • 13From 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.

  • 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 filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 4For 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.

  • 10For 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%

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

    10Then 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.

  • 16And 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,

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

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

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

  • 18The LORD 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 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;