Job 6:9 Cross References - MKJV

⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ And if You are going to part this way with me, I beg You to kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and let me not see my misery.

⁴ And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why is light given to one who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ who is waiting for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for treasures? ²² They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they can find the grave.

¹⁵ so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life. ¹⁶ I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity.

¹³ Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?

²¹ Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.

⁴ For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

¹⁰ Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For my sake, for My sake I will do it; for why should My name be defiled? And I will not give My glory to another. ¹² Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last. ¹³ My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. I called; they stood up together.

³ And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

⁸ And it happened when the sun shone, God ordained a scorching east wind. And the sun beat on the head of Jonah, so that he fainted. And he asked for his life to die. And he said, Better is my death than my life.

⁶ And in those days men will seek death and will not find it. And they will long to die, and death will flee from them.