Job 6:9

Job wishes God would be willing to crush him and cut off his life. In his agony he asks God for death as a release from suffering.

Cross-references · 11

• 1 Kgs 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
• Jonah 4:3Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
• Job 7:15–16so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
• Jonah 4:8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
• Isa 48:10–13Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
• Num 11:14–15I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
• Job 14:13“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
• Ps 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
• Rev 9:6In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
• Job 3:20–22“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
• Job 19:21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

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