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New Century Version

Job 6:9

How I wish God would crush me and reach out his hand to destroy me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Death;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Contrite;   Greatness of God;   Sanctification;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
that he would decide to crush me,to unleash his power and cut me off!
Hebrew Names Version
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
King James Version
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
English Standard Version
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
New English Translation
And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
Amplified Bible
"I wish that it would please God to crush me, That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
New American Standard Bible
"Oh, that God would decide to crush me, That He would let loose His hand and cut me off!
World English Bible
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Geneva Bible (1587)
That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
Legacy Standard Bible
Would that God were willing to crush me,That He would release His hand and cut me off!
Berean Standard Bible
that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
Contemporary English Version
and do away with me.
Complete Jewish Bible
that God would decide to crush me, that he would let his hand loose and cut me off!
Darby Translation
And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Easy-to-Read Version
I wish he would crush me— just go ahead and kill me!
George Lamsa Translation
So that God would hearken to cleanse me, and to spread out his hand and make me whole;
Good News Translation
If only he would go ahead and kill me!
Lexham English Bible
that God would decide that he would crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
Literal Translation
and God would be willing and crush me; let loose His hand and cut me off?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.
American Standard Version
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Bible in Basic English
If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!
King James Version (1611)
Euen that it would please God to destroy mee, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.
English Revised Version
Even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he that bigan, al to-breke me; releesse he his hond, and kitte me doun?
Update Bible Version
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Webster's Bible Translation
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
New King James Version
That it would please God to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!
New Living Translation
I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.
New Life Bible
If only God were willing to crush me, that He would let His hand loose and destroy me!
New Revised Standard
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?
Revised Standard Version
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Young's Literal Translation
That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Would that God were willing to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

Contextual Overview

8 "How I wish that I might have what I ask for and that God would give me what I hope for. 9 How I wish God would crush me and reach out his hand to destroy me. 10 Then I would have this comfort and be glad even in this unending pain, because I would know I did not reject the words of the Holy One. 11 "I do not have the strength to wait. There is nothing to hope for, so why should I be patient? 12 I do not have the strength of stone; my flesh is not bronze. 13 I have no power to help myself, because success has been taken away from me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that it would: Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Job 14:13, Numbers 11:14, Numbers 11:15, 1 Kings 19:4, Jonah 4:3, Jonah 4:8, Revelation 9:6

that he would: Job 19:21, Psalms 32:4, Isaiah 48:10-13

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 14:13 - before the Lord Job 6:26 - one that Job 8:2 - the words Job 10:1 - My soul Job 13:13 - and let come Job 23:17 - cut off Job 30:21 - thy strong hand Job 36:20 - Desire Psalms 88:5 - cut

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God first made the earth and the sky,
Genesis 5:1
This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.
Genesis 5:22
After Methuselah was born, Enoch walked with God 300 years more and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God; one day Enoch could not be found, because God took him.
Genesis 6:9
This is the family history of Noah. Noah was a good man, the most innocent man of his time, and he walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
This is how big I want you to build the boat: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.
Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Obey me and do what is right.
Genesis 48:15
And Israel blessed Joseph and said, "My ancestors Abraham and Isaac served our God, and like a shepherd God has led me all my life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even that it would please God to destroy me,.... Not with an everlasting destruction of body and soul; for destruction from the Almighty was a terror to him, Job 31:23; but with the destruction of the body only; not with an annihilation of it, but with the dissolution of it, or of that union there was between his soul and body: the word n used signifies to bruise and beat to pieces; his meaning is, that his body, his house of clay in which he dwelt, might be crushed to pieces, and beat to powder, and crumbled into dust; and perhaps he may have regard to his original, the dust of the earth, and his return to it, according to the divine threatening, Genesis 3:19; a phrase expressive of death; and so Mr. Broughton renders it, "to bring me to the dust", to "the dust of death", Psalms 22:15;

that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! he had let loose his hand in some degree already; he had given his substance and his body into the hand of Satan; his own hand had touched him, but he had only gone skin deep, as it were; he had smote him in his estate, in his family, and in the outward parts of his body; but now he desires that he would stretch out his hand further, and lift it up, and give a heavier stroke, and pierce him more deeply; strike through his heart and liver, and "make an end" of him, as Mr. Broughton translates the word, and dispatch him at once; cut him off like the flower of the field by the scythe, or like a tree cut down to its root by the axe, or cut off the thread of his life, Isaiah 38:12.

n ידכאני "me conterat", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Schmidt; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Even that it would please God to destroy me - To put me to death, and to release me from my sorrows; compare Job 3:20-21. The word rendered “destroy” here (דכא dâkâ') means properly to break in pieces, to crush, to trample under foot, to make small by bruising. Here the sense is, that Job wished that God would crush him, so as to take his life. The Septuagint renders it “wound” - τρωσάτω trōsatō. The Chaldee renders it, “Let God, who has begun to make me poor, loose his hand and make me rich.”

That he would let loose his hand - Job here represents the hand of God as bound or confined. He wishes that that fettered hand were released, and were so free in its inflictions that he might be permitted to die.

And cut me off - This expression, says Gesenius (Lexicon on the word בצע betsa‛), is a metaphor derived from a weaver, who, when his web is finished, cuts it off from the thrum by which it is fastened to the loom; see the notes at Isaiah 38:12. The sense is, that Job wished that God would wholly finish his work, and that as he had begun to destroy him he would complete it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 6:9. Let loose his hand — A metaphor taken from an archer drawing his arrow to the head, and then loosing his hold, that the arrow may fly to the mark. See on Job 6:4.


 
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