Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off?
New American Standard Bible
That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
King James Version
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Holman Bible
to unleash His power and cut me off!
International Standard Version
that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me!
A Conservative Version
Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
American Standard Version
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Amplified
“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
Bible in Basic English
If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
Darby Translation
And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
King James 2000
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Lexham Expanded Bible
that God would decide that he would crush me, [that] he would let loose his hand and {kill me}.
Modern King James verseion
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.
NET Bible
And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
New Heart English Bible
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.
The Emphasized Bible
That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!
Webster
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
World English Bible
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Youngs Literal Translation
That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
Themes
Interlinear
Ya'al
Nathar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
8 Who will give my asking shall come? and will God give my expectation? 9 And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off? 10 And it will yet be my consolation, and I shall exult in pain: he will not spare; for I hid not the words of of the Holy One.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4
And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.
Numbers 11:14-15
I shall not be able to lift up alone all this people, for it is heavy for me.
Job 3:20-22
Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul?
Job 7:15-16
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.
Job 14:13
Who will give thou wilt hide me in hades? wilt thou cover me till the turning away of thine anger? wilt thou set for me a limit, and wilt thou remember me?
Job 19:21
Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, for the hand of God touched upon me.
Psalm 32:4
For day and night thy hand will be heavy upon me: my moisture was turned into the dryness of summer. Silence.
Isaiah 48:10-13
Behold, I purified thee and not with silver; I chose thee in the furnace of affliction.
Jonah 4:3
And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.
Jonah 4:8
And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them.