Job 9:18

He will not suffer me to take my breath My pains and miseries are continual, and I have not so much as a breathing time free from them; but filleth me with bitterness My afflictions are not only long and uninterrupted, but also exceeding sharp and violent, contrary to the common course of God's providence. Houbigant's version of this and the two preceding verses shows their connection admirably well, and, according to Bishop Lowth, gives us the true sense of the passage. “But, if I should call that he might answer me, I could not easily believe that he would hear my voice; since he hath broken me with a tempest, and inflicted many wounds upon me without cause; nor hath given me space to take my breath, so hath he filled me with bitterness.”