Job 6:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!”
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“that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!”
King James Version · Public Domain“Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“That God would please--and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 6:9 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 11:14I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
- 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on 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 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 3:21who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
- Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
- Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
- Isaiah 48:10See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
- Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- 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.”
- Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
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