What does Job 6:9 mean?

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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.

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