Job 6:9
and that he who, at first, had crushed me, will let loose his hand and cut me down?
Catholic Public Domain 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
8Who will grant that my petition may arrive and that God may bestow on me what I expect,
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4And he continued on, into the desert, for one day’s journey. And when he had arrived, and was sitting under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die. And he said: “It is enough for me, O Lord. Take my soul. For I am no better than my fathers.”
Job 3:21who expect death, and it does not arrive, like those who dig for treasure
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 19:21Have mercy on me, have compassion on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord has touched me.
Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined you, but not like silver. I have chosen you for the furnace of poverty.
Jonah 4:8And when the sun had risen, the Lord ordered a hot and burning wind. And the sun beat down on the head of Jonah, and he burned. And he petitioned for his soul that he might die, and he 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 →