Job 6:9

Job chapter 6 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.8Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grantmethe thing that I long for!

v.9This passage

v.10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 14:13

    Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Jonah 4:8

    And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

  • Psalms 32:4

    For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. [Selah

  • 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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

  • Jonah 4:3

    Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

  • Isaiah 48:10

    Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.