Job 6:9

New International Reader's Version

I wish he would crush me! I wish he would just cut off my life!

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

Then he traveled for one day into the desert. He came to a small bush. He sat down under it. He prayed that he would die. “Lord, I’ve had enough,” he said. “Take my life. I’m no better than my people of long ago.”

Job 10:1

“I’m sick of living. So I’ll talk openly about my problems. I’ll speak out because my spirit is bitter.

Job 11:20

But sinful people won’t find what they are looking for. They won’t be able to escape. All they can hope for is to die.”

Job 14:13

“I wish you would hide me in a grave! I wish you would cover me up until your anger passes by! I wish you would set the time for me to spend in the grave and then bring me back up!

Job 19:21

“Have pity on me, my friends! Please have pity! God has struck me down with his powerful hand.

Job 6:8

“I wish I could have what I’m asking for! I wish God would give me what I’m hoping for!

Job 9:21

“Even though I’m honest, I’m not concerned about myself. I hate my own life.

Psalm 32:4

Day and night you punished me. I became weaker and weaker as I do in the heat of summer.

Isaiah 38:12

My body is like a shepherd’s tent. It has been pulled down and carried off. My life is like a piece of cloth that I’ve rolled up. You have cut it off from the loom. In a short period of time you have brought my life to an end.

Jonah 4:3

Lord, take away my life. I’d rather die than live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God sent a burning east wind. The sun beat down on Jonah’s head. It made him very weak. He wanted to die. So he said, “I’d rather die than live.”

Revelation 9:6

In those days, people will look for a way to die but won’t find it. They will want to die, but death will escape them.