Job 9:18

18 non concedit requiescere spiritum meum et implet me amaritudinibus

Job 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.

Job 9:18 In-Context

16 et cum invocantem exaudierit me non credo quod audierit vocem meam

17 in turbine enim conteret me et multiplicabit vulnera mea etiam sine causa

18 non concedit requiescere spiritum meum et implet me amaritudinibus

19 si fortitudo quaeritur robustissimus est si aequitas iudicii nemo pro me audet testimonium dicere

20 si iustificare me voluero os meum condemnabit me si innocentem ostendere pravum me conprobabit