But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
Job 6:9 - The Scriptures 2009 That it would please Eloah to crush me, loose His hand and cut me off! Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even that it would please God to destroy me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I even wish that it would please God to crush me, that He would let loose His hand and cut me off! American Standard Version (1901) Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Common English Bible that God be willing to crush me, release his hand and cut me off. Catholic Public Domain Version and that he who, at first, had crushed me, will let loose his hand and cut me down? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And that he that hath begun may destroy me: that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off? |
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.
But the eyes of the wrong are consumed, and they shall not escape, and their expectancy is the breathing out of life!”
If only You would hide me in She’ol, conceal me until Your wrath turns away. Set for me a law, and remember me!
Show favour to me, show favour to me, O you my friends, for the hand of Eloah has struck me!
Oh that I might have my desire, that Eloah would grant me what I long for!
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.
“My dwelling is plucked up, taken from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. From day to night You make an end of me.
“And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”
And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall long to die, but death shall flee from them.