Job 6:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains. 16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
  • Job 19:21 : 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
  • Isa 48:10-13 : 10 See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble. 11 For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another. 12 Give ear to me, Jacob, and Israel, my loved one; I am he, I am the first and I am the last. 13 Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
  • Rev 9:6 : 6 And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul; 21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth; 22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
  • Num 11:14-15 : 14 I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength. 15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

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    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

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    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

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    10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Job 10:20
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    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

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    15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

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    13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

    14 I will 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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    2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

    3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

    4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

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    6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

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    3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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    23 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

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    15 If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

  • Job 16:12
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    12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

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    34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

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    10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

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    18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

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    31 Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

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    21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

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    3 If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

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    13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

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    18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

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