Job 9:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Take my breath. — The action being that of breathing again after complete exhaustion — recovering breath and the power to breathe, &c. “If I say I am perfect, it also shall prove me perverse by the very act of saying so; because for man to maintain his righteousness before God is at once to proclaim his iniquity. The finite cannot come into competition with the Infinite, nor measure itself therewith.”