Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 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 broom-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 not better than my fathers.'
Job 3:21Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid 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, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement 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 →