Job 6:9

"“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,"

Key Reflection

In Job 6:9, Job expresses his intense desire to be granted what he yearns for, reflecting his desperate plea for relief from his suffering. For the ancient Israelites, such a prayer would have resonated deeply, given their understanding of divine providence and the often challenging relationship between God and humanity, as depicted in the broader narrative of the Book of Job.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Even that it would please God to destroy me -To put me to death, and to release me from my sorrows; compareJob 3:20-21. The word rendered “destroy” here (דכאdâkâ') 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” -τρωσάτωtrōsatō. The Chaldee renders it, “Let God, who has begun to make me poor, loose his hand and make me rich.” That he would let loose his hand -Job here represents the hand of God as bound or confined.

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