Job 6:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 10:1

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”

Job 14:13

O that you would hide me in Sheol, 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 on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Job 6:8

“O that I might have my request and that God would grant my desire,

Job 9:21

I am blameless; I do not know myself; I loathe my life.

Psalm 32:4

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Revelation 9:6

And in those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.