Job 9:18

Modern

He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Traditional

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

Literal

He does not allow me to return my breath, but He fills me with bitterness.

Latin

Non concedit requiescere spiritum meum, et implet me amaritudinibus.

Hebrew

English

He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Job 7:19
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Psalm 88:7
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
Lamentations 3:18–19
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
Job 27:2
“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
Job 3:20
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Hebrews 12:11
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 88:15–18
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Psalm 39:13
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
Lamentations 3:3
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.