English Standard Version
Job 6:9
9that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Job 6:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- New International Version (NIV)that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!
- New King James Version (NKJV)That it would please God to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
- New Living Translation (NLT)I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
Context of Job 6:9
7My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me. 8"Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope, that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! 10This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One. 11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?
Read all of Job 6Job 6:9 word by word
וְיֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לוֹהַּ וִֽידַכְּאֵ֑נִי יַתֵּ֥ר יָ֝ד֗וֹ וִֽיבַצְּעֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 6:9
- Job 3:20"Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
- Job 7:15so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.
- Job 14:13Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Numbers 11:14I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.
- 1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
- Jonah 4:3Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."
- Revelation 9:6And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
- Job 19:21Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
- Psalms 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
- Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
Commentaries on Job 6:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Let loose his hand - A metaphor taken from an archer drawing his arrow to the head, and then loosing his hold, that the arrow may fly to the mark. See on Job 6:4; (note).Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Even that it would please God to destroy me - To put me to death, and to release me from my sorrows; compare Job 3:20-21. The word rendered “destroy” here (דכא dâkâ' ) means properly to break in pieces, to crush, to trample under foot, to make small by bruising. Here the sense is, that Job wished that God would crush him, so as to take his life. The Septuagint renders it “wound” - ́ trōsatō The Chaldee renders it, “Let God, who has begun to make me…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destroying him. Who, for one hour, could endure the wrath of the Almighty, if he let loose his hand against him? Let us rather say with David, O spare me a little. Job grounds his comfort upon the testimony of his conscience, that he had been, in some degree…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9At one time, both the prophets Moses and Elijah asked God to end their lives (Numbers 11:15; 1 Kings 19:4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. destroy--literally, "grind" or "crush" (Is 3:15). let loose his hand--God had put forth His hand only so far as to wound the surface of Job's flesh (Job 1:12; 2:6); he wishes that hand to be let loose, so as to wound deeply and vitally. cut me off--metaphor from a weaver cutting off the web, when finished, from the thrum fastening it to the loom (Is 38:12).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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