Job 6:9
Modern Translations
New International Version
that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!

New Living Translation
I wish he would crush me. I wish he would reach out his hand and kill me.

English Standard Version
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Berean Study Bible
that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

New American Standard Bible
Oh, that God would decide to crush me, That He would let loose His hand and cut me off!

NASB 1995
"Would that God were willing to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

NASB 1977
“Would that God were willing to crush me; That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

Amplified Bible
“I wish that it would please God to crush me, That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.

Christian Standard Bible
that he would decide to crush me, to unleash his power and cut me off!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
that He would decide to crush me, to unleash His power and cut me off!

Contemporary English Version
and do away with me.

Good News Translation
If only he would go ahead and kill me!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
that God would [finally] be willing to crush me, that he would reach out to cut me off.

International Standard Version
that God would just be willing to crush me; that he would let loose and eliminate me!

NET Bible
And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

New King James Version
That it would please God to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

King James 2000 Bible
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

New Heart English Bible
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.

World English Bible
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

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

American Standard Version
Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

A Faithful Version
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!

Darby Bible Translation
And that it would please +God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

English Revised Version
Even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Webster's Bible Translation
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
That he wolde begynne and smyte me: that he wolde let his honde go, & hew me downe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
That God would please—and bruise me, "" Loose His hand and cut me off!

Young's Literal Translation
That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

Smith's Literal Translation
And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

Catholic Public Domain Version
and that he who, at first, had crushed me, will let loose his hand and cut me down?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And God would be persuaded and would cleanse me and would stretch out his hand and he would perfect me?

Lamsa Bible
So that God would hearken to cleanse me, and to spread out his hand and make me whole;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Even that it would please God to crush me; That He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.
















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