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Job 9:18
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Job 9:18
18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
18Hee will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 9:18
To bear, undergo, or endure pain, loss, or hardship; also to allow or permit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The air inhaled and expelled in the respiration of animals.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
bitterness
A bitter quality or taste; figuratively, severe grief, distress, resentment, or hostility.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 18
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Open the full verse study19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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Open the full verse study15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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Open the full verse study11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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Open the full verse study2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
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Open the full verse study20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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Open the full verse study18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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Open the full verse study3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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Open the full verse study13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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Open the full verse study15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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Open the full verse study7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
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