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Job 9:18 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness. "
Job 9:18
Verse in Context
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If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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Job 9:1
"Then Job answered and said,"
Job 9:2
"I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?"
Job 9:3
"If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand."
Job 9:4
"He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?"
Job 9:5
"Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger."
Job 9:6
"Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble."
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