Job 6:9New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Would that God were willing to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— That God would please—and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Euen that it would please God to destroy mee, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— So that God would hearken to cleanse me, and to spread out his hand and make me whole;
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Even that it would please Eloah to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! |
Even that it would please
2974 {2974} Primeיָאַלya'al{yaw-al'}
A primitive root (probably rather the same as H2973 through the idea of mental weakness); properly to yield, especially assent; hence (positively) to undertake as an act of volition.
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
´Élôåh
אֱלוֹהַ
433 {0433} Primeאֱלוֹהַּ'elowahh{el-o'-ah}
(The second form is rare); probably prolonged (emphatically) from H0410; a deity or the deity.
to destroy
1792 {1792} Primeדּכאdaka'{daw-kaw'}
A primitive root (compare H1794) to crumble; transitively to bruise (literally or figuratively).
z8762 <8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 2447
me; that he would let loose
5425 {5425} Primeנָתַרnathar{naw-thar'}
A primitive root; to jump, that is, be violently agitated; causatively, to terrify, shake off, untie.
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
his hand,
3027 {3027} Primeיָדyad{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
and cut me off!
1214 {1214} Primeבָּצַעbatsa`{baw-tsah'}
A primitive root to break off, that is, (usually) plunder; figuratively to finish, or (intransitively) stop.
z8762 <8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 2447 |
Job 6:9
_ _ destroy — literally, “grind” or “crush” (Isaiah 3:15).
_ _ let loose his hand — God had put forth His hand only so far as to wound the surface of Job’s flesh (Job 1:12; Job 2:6); he wishes that hand to be let loose, so as to wound deeply and vitally.
_ _ cut me off — metaphor from a weaver cutting off the web, when finished, from the thrum fastening it to the loom (Isaiah 38:12). |
Job 6:9
Destroy — To end my days and calamities together. |
- that it would:
Job 3:20-22 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; ... Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 7:15-16 So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life. ... I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
Job 14:13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Numbers 11:14-15 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because [it is] too heavy for me. ... And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live.
Revelation 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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- that he would:
Job 19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Psalms 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Isaiah 48:10-13 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ... Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: [when] I call unto them, they stand up together.
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