Job 6:9
Let the Lord begin and wound me, 1 But let him not utterly destroy me. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4And he himself went a day’s journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.
Job 3:21Who desire death, and obtain it not, 1 Digging for it as for treasures; 1
Job 10:1Weary in my soul, 1 I will pour my words with groans upon him: 1 I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul. 1
Job 19:21Pity me, pity me, O friends; 1 For it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me. 1
Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have sold thee, but not for silver; but I have rescued thee from the furnace of affliction.
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass at the rising of the sun, that God commanded a burning east wind; and the sun smote on the head of Jonah, and he fainted, and despaired of his life, 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 →