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Job 6:7-9
New Catholic Bible
Job 6:7-9
New Catholic Bible
7 I refuse to even touch them;
they are like uncleanness in my food.
The Consolation of Death[a]
8 “Oh, that I might receive my request
and God would grant me what I hope for:
9 that it would please him to crush me,
cutting me off and ceasing to restrain his hand.
Footnotes
- Job 6:8 Job has reached the end of his strength and his patience, and now waits only for death. His only consolation is that he will have remained faithful to God to the end.
