Job 6:9

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Summary

Job 6:9

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

That it would

Revelation 9:6

That he would

Job 19:21

Psalm 32:4

Isaiah 48:10

Bible References

That it would

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pain.

“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

I am not able to carry all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.

That he would

“Have pity on me! Have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has touched me.

For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me;
My energy (vitality, strength) was drained away as with the burning heat of summer. Selah.

“Indeed, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tested and chosen you in the furnace of affliction.