Job 6:9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 6:8-13

Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, Job 3:1-26. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill said as almost any thing we meet with in all his discourses, and is recorded for our admonition,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 6:9

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 of the body only; not with an annihilation of it, but with the dissolution of it, or of that union there was between his soul and body: the word F14 ידכאני "me conterat", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Schmidt; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Michaelis, Schultens. used signifies... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 6:9

Let loose his hand - A metaphor taken from an archer drawing his arrow to the head, and then loosing his hold, that the arrow may fly to the mark. See on Job 6:4 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-13

Job to Eliphaz: 1. Apologies and prayers. I. A DESPERATE MAN 'S DEFENCE . 1. Job ' s calamities surveyed. 2 . Job ' s grief justified. II. A MISERABLE MAN 'S PRAYER . 1 . Job ' s urgent request. "Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!" (verse 8)—that thing being death (cf. Job 3:21 ). Job longed for death as a release from his sufferings ( Job 3:13 ); Elijah, under a sense of weariness and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-13

The sufferer's self-justification. ( Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 .) We have seen that Eliphaz's counsels, though well-meant, were ill-timed. They were right words ' but not fitly spoken as to person, time, and place. They cause the poor sufferer to wince afresh instead of soothing his pain. The tumult of his spirit is now aggravated into a very tempest of woe. The human spirit is a thing of moods. We have watched the marvellous changes that pass over the surface of a lake beneath a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-13

A true estimate of grief under the severities of affliction. Even the strong man cries for help and release. Job, in his extreme sufferings, desires that a fair judgment may be formed of them and of his complaint. Put this into one seals, and them into the other, and behold which of them is the lighter. Thus he describes them— I. THE INSUFFERABLE WEIGHT OF HIS AFFLICTION . It is as the unknown weight of the sand of the seashore. Affliction is truly as the pressure of a great... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-30

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:8-9

The prayer of despair. This is an awful prayer. Job longs for death, and prays God to crush him. Then there will be an end to his agonies. He has rejected his wife's temptation to suicide ( Job 2:9 ); but he begs that God will take his life. I. IT IS WELL TO BRING THE DESPAIR OF THE SOUL TO GOD . The despair is not utter and complete if it has not stifled the fountains of prayer. When it can be said of any one, "Behold, he prayeth," all hope is not yet gone.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:9

Even that it would please God to destroy me; or, to crush me (Revised Version)—"to break me in pieces" (Lee). That he would let loose his hand ; or, put forth his hand— stretch it out against me threateningly." And cut me off . "Cut me off bit by bit " (Lee); comp. Isaiah 38:12 , where the same word is used of a weaver, who cuts the threads of his loom one by one, until the whole is liberated and comes away. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:9

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 break in pieces, to crush, to trample under foot, to make small by bruising. Here the sense is, that Job wished that God would crush him, so as to take his life. The Septuagint renders it “wound” - τρωσάτω trōsatō. The Chaldee renders it, “Let God, who has begun to make me poor, loose his hand and make me... read more

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