Job 6:9
And that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Darby Translation
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
8Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 3:21Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of God hath 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, so that he fainted; and he 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 →