Hiob 9:18

18 Er läßt meinen Geist sich nicht erquicken, sondern macht mich voll Betrübnis.

Hiob 9:18 Meaning and Commentary

Job 9:18

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 ^F21 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 ( Jeremiah 9:15 ) ( Lamentations 3:15 Lamentations 3:19 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Travels. par. 1. B. 2. c. 34. p. 177.

Hiob 9:18 In-Context

16 Wenn ich ihn schon anrufe, und er mir antwortet, so glaube ich doch nicht, daß er meine Stimme höre.

17 Denn er fährt über mich mit Ungestüm und macht mir Wunden viel ohne Ursache.

18 Er läßt meinen Geist sich nicht erquicken, sondern macht mich voll Betrübnis.

19 Will man Macht, so ist er zu mächtig; will man Recht, wer will mein Zeuge sein?

20 Sage ich, daß ich gerecht bin, so verdammt er mich doch; bin ich Unschuldig, so macht er mich doch zu Unrecht.