Job 6:9

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

⁸ "Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for! ⁹ And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me. ¹⁰ Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

Reach Out

Job

1 Kings 19:4

while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."

Numbers 11:14-15

I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me!

Job 3:20-22

"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

Job 7:15-16

so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

Job 14:13

"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

Job 19:21

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer. (Selah)

Isaiah 48:10-13

Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery.

Jonah 4:3

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!"

Jonah 4:8

When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah's head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said, "I would rather die than live!"

Revelation 9:6

In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.