Even that it would please God to destroy me - To put me to death, and to release me from my sorrows . The word rendered “destroy” h…

Even that it would please God ... —The sequence of thought in these verses is obscure and uncertain. The speaker may mean…

Even that it would please God to destroy me
Not with an everlasting destruction of body and soul; for destruction fr…

Job had desired death as the welcome end to his miseries. Eliphaz had reproved him for this, but Job asks for it again with more vehemence than bef…

Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…