Job 6:9

New Century Version

How I wish God would crush me and reach out his hand to destroy me.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

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

Job 10:1

“I hate my life, so I will complain without holding back; I will speak because I am so unhappy.

Job 11:20

But the wicked will not be able to see, so they will not escape. Their only hope will be to die.”

Job 14:13

“I wish you would hide me in the grave; hide me until your anger is gone. I wish you would set a time and then remember me!

Job 19:21

Pity me, my friends, pity me, because the hand of God has hit me.

Job 6:8

“How I wish that I might have what I ask for and that God would give me what I hope for.

Job 9:21

“I am innocent, but I don’t care about myself. I hate my own life.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night you punished me. My strength was gone as in the summer heat.Selah

Isaiah 38:12

Like a shepherd’s tent, my home has been pulled down and taken from me. I am finished like the cloth a weaver rolls up and cuts from the loom. In one day you brought me to this end.

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

As the sun rose higher in the sky, God sent a very hot east wind to blow, and the sun became so hot on Jonah’s head that he became very weak and wished he were dead. He 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 run away from them.