🌪️WEB · Job 9:18
What does Job 9:18 mean?
"He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness."
— Job 9:18 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
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