Job 9:18

¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁹ If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

²⁰ If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
KJV: He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
WEB: He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
ASV: He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.
DARBY: He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses.
BLB: He does not allow me to return my breath, but He fills me [with] bitterness.

ÅB: som ikke ville tillate meg å dra ånde, men ville mette meg med lidelser.
OTB: Han ville ikke la meg få puste,
men ville fylle meg med bitterhet.
B1930: som ikke vilde tillate mig å dra ånde, men vilde mette mig med lidelser.

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How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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Hebrews 12:11
Now 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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Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
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Lamentations 3:18–19
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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