Job 6:9

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

⁸ "Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope, ⁹ “Would that God were willing to crush me,
That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
¹⁰ This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Reach Out

Job

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."

Numbers 11:14-15

I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.

Job 3:20-22

"Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

Job 7:15-16

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

Job 14:13

Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 19:21

Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Isaiah 48:10-13

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

Revelation 9:6

And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.