Job 9:18 Cross References - WEB

¹⁸ He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

²⁰ “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

¹⁹ How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

² “As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

¹³ Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

⁷ Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. ¹⁶ Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. ¹⁷ They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me. ¹⁸ You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

³ Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

¹⁸ I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.” ¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.