Job 6:9 Cross References - Thomson

⁹ Let the Lord, having begun, wound me, but not utterly destroy me.

¹⁴ I am not able alone to bear this people. It is a burden too heavy for me. ¹⁵ If thou deal thus with me, kill me outright, if I have found favour in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.

⁴ and he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness; and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and intreated that he might die, and said, Let the present suffice. Take, I beseech thee, O Lord, my life from me; for I am not better than my fathers

²⁰ For why is light given to them in misery; or life to souls distressed with sorrow, ²¹ who long for death but find it not; though they dig for it as for treasures; ²² and would rejoice exceedingly if they should chance to find it.

¹⁵ Wilt thou drive away my life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death? ¹⁶ For I am not to live forever, that I should bear patiently. Withdraw from me; for my life is vanity.

¹³ O! that thou hadst kept me in the mansion of the dead; and hid me till thine indignation should cease: and that thou wouldst set me a time when thou wouldst remember me;

²¹ Pity me, pity me, O my friends, for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

⁴ Because day and night thy hand was heavy on me, I was reduced to misery by a piercing thorn.

¹⁰ Behold I sold thee; but not for money; and I have rescued thee out of the furnace of affliction. ¹¹ For mine own sake I will deal with thee; because my name hath been profaned, and my glory I will not give to another. ¹² Hearken to me, Jacob! and thou Israel whom I call. I am the first and am forever. ¹³ My hand hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath established the heaven. Let me summon them and let them stand together.

³ Now, therefore, Sovereign Lord, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And when the sun rose God ordered a burning wind to spring up and the sun beat upon Jonas' head so that he became fainty and abandoned himself to despair and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

⁶ And in those days the men will seek death and shall not find it; and they will earnestly desire to die and death will flee from them.