Job 6:9
King James Version (KJV)
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
American Standard Version (ASV)
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
World English Bible (WEB)
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:9 Cross References
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
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.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.