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 does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,

So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me.

Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then {he asked Yahweh that he might die}, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because [for] me death [is] better than life!"

And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.

That he would

"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah

Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in [the] furnace of misery.