Job 6:9 Cross References - EJ2000

⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all these people alone because it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ And if thou must deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found grace in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

⁴ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

²⁰ ¶ Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ²¹ who long for death, but it comes not; and search for it more than for hid treasures; ²² who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave;

¹⁵ And my soul thought it better to be strangled and desired death more than my bones. ¹⁶ I loathed life; I do not desire to live for ever; let me alone; for my days are vanity.

¹³ O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me covered until thy wrath is past, that thou would appoint me a set time and remember me!

²¹ Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my green growth is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

¹⁰ Behold, I have refined thee, and not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, I will do it, for how should my name be profaned? 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 Certainly my hand founded the earth, and my right hand measured the heavens with the palm; as I named them, they appeared together.

³ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for I would rather die than live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁶ And in those days men shall seek death and shall not find it and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.