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 away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 6:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Even 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 juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee, And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah
Mine age is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up like a weaver my life; he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.