9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. …
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. …
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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…
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