Job 6:9

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

⁸ “Oh that my request might come to pass,
And that God would grant my longing!
⁹ “Would that God were willing to crush me,
That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
¹⁰ “But it is still my consolation,
And I rejoice in unsparing pain,
That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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Job

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:14-15

I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me.

Job 3:20-22

“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,

Job 7:15-16

So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pains.

Job 14:13

“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!

Job 19:21

“Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

Isaiah 48:10-13

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

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”

Revelation 9:6

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.