Job 6:8

New English Translation

“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

Job 10:1

“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 3:21

to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

Job 3:22

who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

Job 6:7

I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.

Job 6:9

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

Psalm 119:81

I desperately long for your deliverance. I find hope in your word.

Jonah 4:3

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”