But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”
Job 6:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! More versionsKing 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 solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”
O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;
And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.