New King James Version
Job 6:9
9That it would please God to crush me, That He would 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!
- English Standard Version (ESV)that it would please God to crush me, that he would let 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 soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me. 8“Oh, that I might have my request, That God would grant me the thing that I long for! That it would please God to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off! 10Then I would still have comfort; Though in anguish I would exult, He will not spare; For I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. 11“What strength do I have, that I should hope? 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
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Cross-references for Job 6:9
- Job 3:20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 7:15So that my soul chooses strangling And death rather than my body.
- Job 14:13“Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, That You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Numbers 11:14I am not able to bear all these people alone, because 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 prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take 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 9:6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
- Job 19:21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!
- Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah
- Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined you, but 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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