Job 6:9

In 11 translations

BSB

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

KJV

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

WEB

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

ASV

Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

LSV

That God would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off!

YLT

That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

DBY

And that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!Eloah

DRC

And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

GNV

That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.

JPS

Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!

LXXE

Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.

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WLC

וְיֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לוֹהַּ וִֽידַכְּאֵ֑נִי יַתֵּ֥ר יָ֝ד֗וֹ וִֽיבַצְּעֵֽנִי׃

LXX-Br

Ἀρξάμενος ὁ Κύριος τρωσάτω με, εἰς τέλος δὲ μή με ἀνελέτω.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
• Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
• Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
• Isaiah 48:10–13See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For My own sake, My very own sake, I will act; for how can I let Myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another.…
• Job 7:15–16so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
• Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
• Job 3:20–22Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
• Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
• Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
• Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
• Numbers 11:14–15I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me. If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

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