Job 6:9

destroy. crush.

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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 “de...
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 impatien...
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 d...
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 M...
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...
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 j...
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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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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...
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 terr...
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 ] Th...
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 st...
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 s...
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;...
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 givi...
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 apprehende...
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...
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 th...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends his Desire for Death
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Even that it would please God to destroy me, snuffing out his life by an early death; that He would let loose His hand and cut me off! The picture...
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 ; Numbe...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Destroy — To end my days and calamities together.

⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Related Commentaries of Job 6:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 6:9