Job 6:9
That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub,—and asked for his life, that he might die, and said—Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.
Job 3:21Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:
Job 10:1My soul doth loathe my life,—I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 19:21Pity me! pity me! ye, my friends, for, the hand of GOD, hath stricken me!
Isaiah 48:10Lo! I have refined thee, but not as silver,—I have tested thee, in a smelting-pot of affliction.
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, at the breaking forth of the sun, that God appointed a sultry east wind, and the sun smote upon the head of Jonah, that he became faint,—and asked his life, that he might die, and said, It were 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 →