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Job 6:9
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that he would decide to crush me,to unleash his power and cut me off!
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
How I wish God would crush me and reach out his hand to destroy me.
And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
"I wish that it would please God to crush me, That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
"Oh, that God would decide to crush me, That He would let loose His hand and cut me off!
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
Would that God were willing to crush me,That He would release His hand and cut me off!
that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
that God would decide to crush me, that he would let his hand loose and cut me off!
And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
I wish he would crush me— just go ahead and kill me!
So that God would hearken to cleanse me, and to spread out his hand and make me whole;
If only he would go ahead and kill me!
that God would decide that he would crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
and God would be willing and crush me; let loose His hand and cut me off?
That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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!
O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:
Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!
Euen that it would please God to destroy mee, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.
Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.
Even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
And he that bigan, al to-breke me; releesse he his hond, and kitte me doun?
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
That it would please God to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
If only God were willing to crush me, that He would let His hand loose and destroy me!
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!
And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
"Would that God were willing to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that it would: Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Job 14:13, Numbers 11:14, Numbers 11:15, 1 Kings 19:4, Jonah 4:3, Jonah 4:8, Revelation 9:6
that he would: Job 19:21, Psalms 32:4, Isaiah 48:10-13
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 14:13 - before the Lord Job 6:26 - one that Job 8:2 - the words Job 10:1 - My soul Job 13:13 - and let come Job 23:17 - cut off Job 30:21 - thy strong hand Job 36:20 - Desire Psalms 88:5 - cut
Cross-References
That's how God created the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth,
God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:
and during the next three hundred years he had more children. Enoch truly loved God,
and this is the story about him. Noah was the only person who lived right and obeyed God.
Make it four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
The Lord told Noah: Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.
After the flood Shem, Ham, and Japheth had many descendants.
Abram was ninety-nine years old when the Lord appeared to him again and said, "I am God All-Powerful. If you obey me and always do right,
Then he gave Joseph his blessing and said: My grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac worshiped the Lord God. He has been with me all my life,
Solomon answered: My father David, your servant, was honest and did what you commanded. You were always loyal to him, and you gave him a son who is now king.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Even that it would please God to destroy me,.... Not with an everlasting destruction of body and soul; for destruction from the Almighty was a terror to him, Job 31:23; but with the destruction of the body only; not with an annihilation of it, but with the dissolution of it, or of that union there was between his soul and body: the word n used signifies to bruise and beat to pieces; his meaning is, that his body, his house of clay in which he dwelt, might be crushed to pieces, and beat to powder, and crumbled into dust; and perhaps he may have regard to his original, the dust of the earth, and his return to it, according to the divine threatening, Genesis 3:19; a phrase expressive of death; and so Mr. Broughton renders it, "to bring me to the dust", to "the dust of death", Psalms 22:15;
that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! he had let loose his hand in some degree already; he had given his substance and his body into the hand of Satan; his own hand had touched him, but he had only gone skin deep, as it were; he had smote him in his estate, in his family, and in the outward parts of his body; but now he desires that he would stretch out his hand further, and lift it up, and give a heavier stroke, and pierce him more deeply; strike through his heart and liver, and "make an end" of him, as Mr. Broughton translates the word, and dispatch him at once; cut him off like the flower of the field by the scythe, or like a tree cut down to its root by the axe, or cut off the thread of his life, Isaiah 38:12.
n ××××× × "me conterat", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Schmidt; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Even that it would please God to destroy me - To put me to death, and to release me from my sorrows; compare Job 3:20-21. The word rendered âdestroyâ here (××× daÌkaÌ') means properly to break in pieces, to crush, to trample under foot, to make small by bruising. Here the sense is, that Job wished that God would crush him, so as to take his life. The Septuagint renders it âwoundâ - ÏÏÏÏαÌÏÏ troÌsatoÌ. The Chaldee renders it, âLet God, who has begun to make me poor, loose his hand and make me rich.â
That he would let loose his hand - Job here represents the hand of God as bound or confined. He wishes that that fettered hand were released, and were so free in its inflictions that he might be permitted to die.
And cut me off - This expression, says Gesenius (Lexicon on the word ×צע betsaâ), is a metaphor derived from a weaver, who, when his web is finished, cuts it off from the thrum by which it is fastened to the loom; see the notes at Isaiah 38:12. The sense is, that Job wished that God would wholly finish his work, and that as he had begun to destroy him he would complete it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:9. Let loose his hand — A metaphor taken from an archer drawing his arrow to the head, and then loosing his hold, that the arrow may fly to the mark. See on Job 6:4.
