Job 6:9
that it would please God to crush me once, 1 that he would let loose his hand and cut me off from this life! 1
Unlocked Literal 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
8Oh, that I might have my request; 1 oh, that God would grant me the thing I long for: 1
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. He requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough, now, Yahweh; take away my life, for I am no better than my dead ancestors.”
Job 3:21to one who longs for death without it coming; 1 to one who digs for death more than for hidden treasure? 1
Job 10:1I am weary of my life; 1 I will give free expression to my complaint; 1 I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 1
Job 19:21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, my friends, 1 for the hand of God has touched me. 1
Isaiah 48:10Look, I refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of affliction. 1
Jonah 4:8It came about that when the sun rose the next morning, God prepared a hot east wind. Also, the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he became faint. Then Jonah wished that he might die. He said to himself, “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 →