Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

New American Standard Bible

“Would that God were willing to crush me,
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

that He would decide to crush me,
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!

Julia Smith Translation

And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he 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!

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!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יאל 
Ya'al 
Usage: 18

God
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

to destroy
דּכא 
Daka' 
Usage: 18

נתר 
Nathar 
Usage: 8

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

8 "O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for! 9 That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down. 10 Then should I have some comfort: yea, I would desire him in my pain, that he should not spare, for I will not be against the words of the holy one.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers."

Numbers 11:14-15

I am not able to bear all this people alone, for it is too heavy for me.

Job 3:20-22

"Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?

Job 7:15-16

that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.

Job 14:13

O that thou wouldest keep me, and hide me in the hell, until thy wrath were stilled: and to appoint me a time, wherein thou mightest remember me.

Job 19:21

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends! For the hand of God hath touched me.

Psalm 32:4

For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah.

Isaiah 48:10-13

Behold, I have purged thee, and not for money. I have chosen thee in the fire of poverty;

Jonah 4:3

Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."

Jonah 4:8

And as soon as the sun was up, God prepared a fervent east wind: so that the sun beat over the head of Jonah, that he fainted again and wished unto his soul that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

Revelation 9:6

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.

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