Job 6:9 · KJV
“Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!”
— Job 6:9
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant {me} the thing that I long for! {the thing...: Heb. my expectation}
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Job 6 — Context
The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.
8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant {me} the thing that I long for! {the thing...: Heb. my expectation}
9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
11What {is} my strength, that I should hope? and what {is} mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I {am} not better than my fathers. {for himself: Heb. for his life}
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for {it is} better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, {It is} better for me to die than to live. {vehement: or, silent}
Isaiah 48:10-13
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. {with...: or, for silver}
Job 7:15-16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, {and} death rather than my life. {life: Heb. bones}
Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Job 3:20-22
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter {in} soul;