Job 6:9
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 6
“Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!”Job 6:9
What Does Job 6:9 Mean?
Job 6:9 is found in the book of Job, chapter 6, verse 9 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Job 6:9 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
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.”Job 7:15“So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.”Isaiah 48:10“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”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.”Numbers 11:14“I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.”Job 3:20“Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;”Job 7:16“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!”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.”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.”2 Chronicles 14:13“And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the LORD, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.”Job 6:26“Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?”Job 8:2“How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?”Job 13:13“Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.”Job 23:17“Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.”Job 30:21“Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.”Job 36:20“Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.”Psalms 88:5“Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.”
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