Job 6:9

Modern English Version

That it would please God to crush me, that He would let loose His hand and cut me off!

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

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

Job 10:1

“My soul loathes my life; I will freely give my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and they will not escape, and their hope will be as the giving up of breath.”

Job 14:13

“Oh, that You would hide me in the grave, that You would conceal me until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time and remember me!

Job 19:21

“Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has struck me!

Job 6:8

“Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Job 9:21

“Though I were perfect, I would not know myself; I would despise my life.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was turned into the drought of summer.   Selah

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is pulled up and removed from me as a shepherd’s tent; I rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the loom; from day even to night You make an end of me.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore, Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah so that he became faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Revelation 9:6

In those days men will seek death but will not find it. They will desire to die, but death will elude them.