Job 6:9

would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.

The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh.” Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

The prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them. Thus it will be done to them.”

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”

He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.