Job 6:9

Easy To Read Version

I wish God would crush me,\par just go ahead and kill me!\par

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

Then Elijah walked for a whole day into the desert. Elijah sat down under a bush. He asked to die. Elijah said, “I have had enough, Lord! Let me die. I am no better than my ancestors. [210] ”

Job 10:1

I hate my own life.\par So I will complain freely.\par My soul is very bitter,\par so now I will speak.\par

Job 11:20

Bad people might look for help,\par but they won’t escape their troubles.\par Their hope leads only to death.”\par

Job 14:13

“I wish you would hide me in my grave.\par I wish you would hide me there,\par until your anger is gone.\par Then you could pick a time\par to remember me.\par

Job 19:21

“Pity me, my friends, pity me!\par Why? Because God is against me.\par

Job 6:8

“I wish I could have what I ask for.\par I wish God would give me what I want.\par

Job 9:21

I am innocent.\par But I don’t know what to think.\par I hate my own life.\par

Psalm 32:4

God, you made life harder and harder on me, day and night.\par I became like a dry, dry land in the hot summertime.\par \i (SELAH {\cf2\super [199]})\i0 \par

Isaiah 38:12

My home, my shepherd’s tent,\par is being pulled down\par and taken from me.\par I am finished\par like the cloth a man rolls up\par and cuts from the loom. {\cf2\super [367]} \par You finished my life in such a short time!\par

Jonah 4:3

So now I ask you, Lord, please kill me. It is better for me to die than to live!”

Jonah 4:8

After the sun was high in the sky, God caused a hot east wind to blow. The sun became very hot on Jonah’s head and Jonah became very, very weak. Jonah asked God to let him die. Jonah said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Revelation 9:6

During those days people will look for a way to die, but they will not find it. They will want to die, but death will hide from them.