Job 6:9

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 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 Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones. 16 I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, 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 : 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {{Selah
  • Isa 48:10-13 : 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should [my name] be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
  • Rev 9:6 : 6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
  • Num 11:14-15 : 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

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    82%

    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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  • Job 31:22-23
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    22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

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  • Ps 39:10
    76%

    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

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  • Job 13:13-15
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    13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

    14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

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  • Job 6:2-4
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    2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.

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  • Job 19:6
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    6Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.

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    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

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    23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

  • Num 11:15
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    15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

  • Job 16:12
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    12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

  • Job 9:34
    73%

    34Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid:

  • Job 19:10
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  • Job 10:18
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    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • Job 9:31
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    31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Job 14:13
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    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, 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
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    21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

  • Job 23:3
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  • Job 13:19
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    72%

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