Bible Strands
Job 6:9
that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job speaks directly to God, continuing the monologue from Job 6:8. He voices a desperate wish for God to actively end his life.
The words — וְיֹאֵל (veyo'el) means "may He be willing," and יַתֵּר יָדוֹ (yatter yado) translates to "may He loosen His hand." These terms frame Job's request for God to actively execute his death.
The thread — This plea for divine termination aligns with Elijah's request under the broom tree in 1 Kings 19:4, Jonah's desire to die in Jonah 4:3, and Job's own preference for strangling in Job 7:15.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of a believer's raw petition for death rather than a defense of suffering, placing the burden of divine response entirely on God's will.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 19:4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a 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 fathers.”
- Jonah 4:3 And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Job 7:15 so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
- Isaiah 48:10 See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
- Jonah 4:8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- Numbers 11:14 I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.
- Job 3:20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 14:13 If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
- Job 19:21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Psalms 32:4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah