Job 9:18

“He will not suffer me to take my breath, etc.] 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 f392 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…”

“He will not suffer me to take my breath; - see the notes at Job 7:19. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Breath - My pains are continual, and I have not so much as a breathing time free from them. Job 9:19”

“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 Job 9:19”