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Job 6:9

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

KJV

et qui cœpit, ipse me conterat ; solvat manum suam, et succidat me ?

Vulgate

ἀρξάμενος ὁ κύριος τρωσάτω με, εἰς τέλος δὲ μή με ἀνελέτω.

LXX

Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

ASV

וְ/יֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לוֹהַּ וִֽ/ידַכְּאֵ֑/נִי יַתֵּ֥ר יָ֝ד֗/וֹ וִֽ/יבַצְּעֵֽ/נִי

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֱל֣וֹהַּ
'lvh
noun · 60×
הוֹאִ֣יל
hv'yl
verb · 19×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
יַּתֵּ֥ר
ytr
verb · 8×
נִי
ny
verb · 16×
תְּדַכְּא֣וּ
tdk'v
verb · 18×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 19:4 — But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my l
  • Isa 48:10 — Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
  • Job 3:20 — Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
  • Job 7:15 — So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
  • Job 7:16 — I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
  • Job 14:13 — O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  • Job 19:21 — Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
  • Jonah 4:3 — Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
  • Jonah 4:8 — And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for
  • Num 11:14 — I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
  • Ps 32:4 — For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Rev 9:6 — And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.