Job 6:9 Cross References

Job 6:9

9: I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.

Then he went on alone into the desert, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. "I have had enough, LORD," he said. "Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors."

Just kill me now, LORD! I'd rather be dead than alive because nothing I predicted is going to happen."

I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this.
I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.

I have refined you but not in the way silver is refined. Rather, I have refined you in the furnace of suffering.
I will rescue you for my sake--yes, for my own sake! That way, the pagan nations will not be able to claim that their gods have conquered me. I will not let them have my glory!
"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, Israel my chosen one! I alone am God, the First and the Last.
It was my hand that laid the foundations of the earth. The palm of my right hand spread out the heavens above. I spoke, and they came into being.

"Oh, why should light be given to the weary, and life to those in misery?
They long for death, and it won't come. They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.
It is a blessed relief when they finally die, when they find the grave.

Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.

"I wish you would hide me with the dead and forget me there until your anger has passed. But mark your calendar to think of me again!

In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee away!

And as the sun grew hot, God sent a scorching east wind to blow on Jonah. The sun beat down on his head until he grew faint and wished to die. "Death is certainly better than this!" he exclaimed.

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