Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
In Context
8O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my
Job 3:21who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures,
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live
Matthew Henry on Job 6:9-14
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? 13 Is not my help in me?… Read the whole commentary →