Verse 9
Job 6:9
King James Version
9
Even that it would please God (Elohim) to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/יֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לוֹהַּ וִֽ/ידַכְּאֵ֑/נִי יַתֵּ֥ר יָ֝ד֗/וֹ וִֽ/יבַצְּעֵֽ/נִי
English Translation
And God will not let me be diminished, and He will deliver me.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
Done.
Sign in to save notes and annotations.
Chapter 6 Context
1
But Job answered and said,
Focus ↗
2
O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Focus ↗
3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Focus ↗
4
For the arrows of the Almighty
are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors...
Focus ↗
5
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Focus ↗
6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there
any taste in the white of an egg?
Focus ↗
7
The things
that my soul refused to touch
are as my sorrowful meat.
Focus ↗
8
Oh that I might have my request; and that God (Elohim) would grant
me
the thing that I long for!
Focus ↗
9
Even that it would please God (Elohim) to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me o...
10
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have...
Focus ↗
11
What
is my strength, that I should hope? and what
is
mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Focus ↗
12
Is my strength the strength of stones? or
is my flesh of brass?
Focus ↗
13
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Focus ↗
14
To him that is afflicted pity
should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Alm...
Focus ↗
15
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,
and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Focus ↗
16
Which are blackish by reason of the ice,
and wherein the snow is hid:
Focus ↗
17
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Focus ↗
18
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
Focus ↗
19
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Focus ↗
20
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Focus ↗
21
For now ye are no thing; ye see
my casting down, and are afraid.
Focus ↗
22
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Focus ↗
23
Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Focus ↗
24
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Focus ↗
25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Focus ↗
26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate,
which are as wind?
Focus ↗
27
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig
a pit for your friend.
Focus ↗
28
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for
it is evident unto you if I lie.
Focus ↗
29
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness
is in it.
Focus ↗
30
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Focus ↗