Verse 9

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 while he went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the LORD to take his life:“I’ve had enough! Now, O LORD, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life. 16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
  • Job 14:13 : 13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
  • Job 19:21 : 21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.(Selah)
  • Isa 48:10-13 : 10 Look, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have purified you in the furnace of misery. 11 For my sake alone I will act, for how can I allow my name to be defiled? I will not share my glory with anyone else! 12 Listen to me, O Jacob, Israel, whom I summoned! I am the one; I am present at the very beginning and at the very end. 13 Yes, my hand founded the earth; my right hand spread out the sky. I summon them; they stand together.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said,“I would rather die than live!”
  • Rev 9:6 : 6 In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter, 21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
  • Num 11:14-15 : 14 I am not able to bear this entire people alone, because it is too heavy for me! 15 But if you are going to deal with me like this, then kill me immediately. If I have found favor in your sight then do not let me see my trouble.”