New English Translation
Job 6:9
9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
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!
- English Standard Version (ESV)that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
- New King James Version (NKJV)That it would please God to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
Context of Job 6:9
7I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me. 8“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for! And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me. 10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. 11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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 does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
- Job 7:15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
- Job 14:13“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
- Numbers 11:14I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!
- 1 Kings 19:4while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”
- Jonah 4:3So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
- Revelation 9:6In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
- Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Psalms 32:4For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)
- Isaiah 48:10Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.
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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