Job 6:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לוֹהַּ וִֽידַכְּאֵ֑נִי יַתֵּ֥ר יָ֝ד֗וֹ וִֽיבַצְּעֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

wə-yōʾēl ʾĕlôah wîdakkəʾēnî yattēr yādô wîbaṣṣəʿēnî

Grammar Details

• *wə-yōʾēl*: conjunction + Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - that he would be willing
• *ʾĕlôah*: divine name - God
• *wîdakkəʾēnî*: conjunction + Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - and crush me
• *yattēr*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - let loose/free
• *yādô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his hand
• *wîbaṣṣəʿēnî*: conjunction + Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - and cut me off

Word Meanings

• *yāʾal*: to be willing/determine/undertake
• *dākāʾ*: to crush/break/oppress
• *nātar*: to loose/free/untie
• *bāṣaʿ*: to cut off/break off/sever

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 LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
• Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, O LORD, 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 my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
• Job 14:13 : 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 : 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 is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
• Isa 48:10-13 : 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
• Jonah 4:8 : 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 me to die than to live.
• Rev 9:6 : 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.
• Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which 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 favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.