Job 6:9
That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
Young's Literal Translation
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
8O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.'
Job 3:21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
Job 10:1My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 19:21Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.
Isaiah 48:10Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction.
Jonah 4:8And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better [is] my death than my life.'
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 →