Job 6:9
that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
Majority Standard Bible
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
8If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Job 3:21who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
Isaiah 48:10See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “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 →