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Job 6:9
9that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!
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!
- 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!
- 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
7I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill. 8“Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for, that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life! 10Then I would still have this consolation— my joy in unrelenting pain— that I had not denied the words of the Holy One. 11“What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What prospects, 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 those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 7:15so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.
- Job 14:13“If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
- Numbers 11:14I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.
- 1 Kings 19:4while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
- Jonah 4:3Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Revelation 9:6During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
- Job 19:21“Have 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 on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.
- Isaiah 48:10See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested 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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