Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 9:18

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

18. will not suffer ] Rather, would not suffer. And so, but fill.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

He will not suffer me to take my breath; – see the notes at Job 7:19.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. He will not suffer me to take my breath] I have no respite in my afflictions; I suffer continually in my body, and my mind is incessantly harassed.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

My pains and miseries are continual, and I have not so much as a breathing time free from them. My afflictions are not only long and uninterrupted, but also exceeding sharp and violent, contrary to the common course of Gods providence.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

He will not suffer me to take my breath,…. Which some think refers to Job’s disease, which was either an asthma, or a quinsy in his throat, which occasioned great difficulty in breathing: I should rather think the allusion is to the hot burning winds in those countries before mentioned, which sometimes blew so strongly as almost to take away a man’s breath; so the above traveller u reports, that between Suez and Cairo (in Egypt) they had for a day’s time and more so hot a wind, that they were forced to turn their backs to it, to take a little breath. The design of Job is to show, that his afflictions were continued, and were without any intervals; they were repeated so fast, and came so thick upon him, one after another, that he had no breathing time; the import of the phrase is the same with that in Job 7:19;

but filleth me with bitterness; to the full, to satiety, to loathing, as a man may be with a bitter potion, with wormwood drink, and water of gall, with bitter afflictions comparable to such, whereby Job’s life was embittered to him, see Jer 9:15.

u Travels. par. 1. B. 2. c. 34. p. 177.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(18) Take my breath.The action being that of breathing again after complete exhaustionrecovering breath and the power to breathe, &c. If I say I am perfect, it also shall prove me perverse by the very act of saying so; because for man to maintain his righteousness before God is at once to proclaim his iniquity. The finite cannot come into competition with the Infinite, nor measure itself therewith.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

18. Take my breath So incessant is the sorrow with which God visits him. See Job 7:19.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 9:18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

Ver. 18. He will not suffer me to take my breath ] I am so far from a period, that I have no pause of my troubles. I cannot get any interspirias, or free breathing space. See Job 7:19 . And in the former verse he had complained that God had stormed him. Interim per Pathos, saith Mercer; here he returns to his old practice of expostulating about the greatness of his grief, and spares not to hyperbolize. Beda and others understand this text to be a bodily distemper upon Job, which had made him short winded. And Lavater hath this good note here, Hoc cogitandum nobis est, &c. Let this text be thought upon when our spirits begin to sink; as also when by reason of the phthisic, A wasting disease of the lungs; pulmonary consumption or any other like disease, we feel a difficulty of breathing, and a straitening of our pectorals, or be otherwise compassed about with great sorrows.

But filleth me with bitterness ] Heb. He satiateth me with bitternesses, i.e. with sore and sharp afflictions, which are in no way joyous, but grievous to the flesh, Heb 12:11 . Job had his belly full of gall and wormwood; he had not only a draught or two, but a diet drink made for him of most bitter ingredients. Of this he complaineth heavily; what then will the wicked do, that must suck up the dregs of God’s cup, Psa 78:8 , which hath eternity to the bottom?

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

breath. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

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will not: Job 7:19, Psa 39:13, Psa 88:7, Psa 88:15-18, Lam 3:3, Lam 3:18

filleth me: Job 3:20, Lam 3:15, Lam 3:19, Heb 12:11

Reciprocal: 1Sa 1:10 – in bitterness of soul Est 4:14 – enlargement Job 21:25 – in the bitterness Job 40:2 – he that reproveth Pro 14:10 – heart

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Job 9:18. He will not suffer me to take my breath My pains and miseries are continual, and I have not so much as a breathing time free from them; but filleth me with bitterness My afflictions are not only long and uninterrupted, but also exceeding sharp and violent, contrary to the common course of Gods providence. Houbigants version of this and the two preceding verses shows their connection admirably well, and, according to Bishop Lowth, gives us the true sense of the passage. But, if I should call that he might answer me, I could not easily believe that he would hear my voice; since he hath broken me with a tempest, and inflicted many wounds upon me without cause; nor hath given me space to take my breath, so hath he filled me with bitterness.

Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments