Job 6:9
Even that it would please Eloah to crush me; 1 that He would let loose His yad, and cut me off! 1
Orthodox Jewish 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
8Who will grant that I might have my she'elah (request); 1 oh that Eloah would grant me my tikveh! 1
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But he himself went derech yom (a dayʼs journey) into the midbar, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he requested for his nefesh to die; and said, It is enough; now, O Hashem, take away my nefesh; for I am no better than my avot.
Job 3:21Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, 1 when they can find the kever? 1
Job 10:1My nefesh is sick of my life; 1 I will give free rein to my si'akh (complaint); 1 I will speak in the mar (bitterness) of my nefesh. 1
Job 19:21Channuni, channuni, 1 O ye my friends; 1 for the yad Eloah hath touched me. 1
Isaiah 48:10Hinei, I have refined thee, but not as kesef; 1 I have chosen thee in the furnace of oni (affliction). 1
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the shemesh did arise, that Elohim prepared a vehement scorching east ruach (wind); and the shemesh beat upon the rosh Yonah, that he grew faint, and wanted to + 4:8 Moshiach is the Navi like Moshe, the Navi like Yonah, whom Mavet swallows and then vomits up so that he can divide the spoil with those whose chet he bears away to death like the Yom Kippur scapegoat (see Isa 53:12 ). 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 →