Job Chapter 6 verse 9 Holy Bible
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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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!
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And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
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Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Even that it would please God to destroy me; or, to crush me (Revised Version) - "to break me in pieces" (Lee). That he would let loose his hand; or, put forth his hand - stretch it out against me threateningly." And cut me off. "Cut me off bit by bit" (Lee); comp. Isaiah 38:12, where the same word is used of a weaver, who cuts the threads of his loom one by one, until the whole is liberated and comes away.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Even that it would please God . . .--The sequence of thought in these verses is obscure and uncertain. The speaker may mean that, notwithstanding all that might befall him, his consolation would still be that he had never denied the words of the Holy One. The words "I would harden myself in sorrow" are the most doubtful, not occurring elsewhere in Scripture. Some render the two clauses, "I would exult, or rejoice, in pain that spareth not;" but "Let him not spare," or "Though he spare not," seems preferable. Others render, "Though I burn in sorrow."