Job 6:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! ”

• Job 6:9 - Albert 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 br...

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• Job 6:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz ( Job 5:2 ), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity ( Job 6:1 f.). T...

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• Job 6:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  destroy . crush.

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• Job 6:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Let loose his hand - A metaphor taken from an archer drawing his arrow to the head, and then loosing his...

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• Job 6:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Oh that I might have my request, &c.— These two verses, as well as the 11th, with many more that might be quoted to the same purpose, are, as Mr. Peters observes, utterly inconsistent with Job'...

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• Job 6:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Destroy - literally, grind or crush ( Isaiah 3:15 ). Let loose his hand. God had put forth H...

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• Job 6:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of Job ( Job 6:7 ) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness...

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• Job 6:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 stil...

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• Job 6:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for...

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• Job 6:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of h...

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• Job 6:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but ra...

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• Job 6:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (8) В¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! (9) Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (10)...

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• Job 6:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 o...

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• Job 6:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Ver. 9. That it would please God to destroy me ] That is, to despatch me out of this world, and send...

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• Job 6:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  O that I might have my request! The thing which I so passionately desired, and which, notwithstanding all your vain words, and weak arguments, I still continue to desire, and beseech God to grant m...

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• Job 6:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz...

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• Job 6:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!   9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!...

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• Job 6:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To destroy me; to end my days and calamities together. That he would let loose his hand ; which is now as it were bound up or restrained from giving me that deadly blow which I desire. Oh that he...

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• Job 6:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires ferventl...

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• Job 6:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languis...

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• Job 6:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Eliphaz We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in li...

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• Job 6:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"— i.e. of his vexation and impatience...

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• Job 6:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Defends his Desire for Death

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• Job 6:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 19:4 ; Isaiah 48:10-13 ; Job 14:13 ; Job 19:21 ; Job 3:20-22 ; Job 7:15 ; Job 7:16 ; Jonah 4:3 ; Jonah 4:8 ; Numbers 11:14 ; Numbers 11:15 ; Psalms 32:4 ; Revelation 9:6

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• Job 6:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Destroy — To end my days and calamities together.

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