The Meaning of Job 6:9 Explained

Job 6:9

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

YLT: That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

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

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

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 6:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"
The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.
Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.
From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

1  Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
8  He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
14  He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:9 mean?

That it would please God to crush me that He would loose His hand and cut me off
וְיֹאֵ֣ל אֱ֭לוֹהַּ וִֽידַכְּאֵ֑נִי יַתֵּ֥ר יָ֝ד֗וֹ ! וִֽיבַצְּעֵֽנִי

וְיֹאֵ֣ל  That  it  would  please 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive imperfect Jussive, third person masculine singular
Root: יָאַל  
Sense: to begin, make a beginning, show willingness, undertake to do, be pleased, be determined.
אֱ֭לוֹהַּ  God 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֱלֹוהַּ  
Sense: God.
וִֽידַכְּאֵ֑נִי  to  crush  me 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Conjunctive imperfect, third person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: דָּכָא  
Sense: to crush, be crushed, be contrite, be broken.
יַתֵּ֥ר  that  He  would  loose 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect Jussive, third person masculine singular
Root: נָתַר 
Sense: to start up, tremble, shake, spring up.
יָ֝ד֗וֹ  His  hand 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: יָד  
Sense: hand.
! וִֽיבַצְּעֵֽנִי  and  cut  me  off 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Piel, Conjunctive imperfect, third person masculine singular, first person common singular
Root: בָּצַע  
Sense: to cut off, break off, gain by unrighteous violence, get, finish, be covetous, be greedy.