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Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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The Weaver's Final Cut
Commentators explain that Job's plea uses powerful metaphors. He asks God to "crush" him, like turning something to dust, and to "cut me off," an image drawn from a weaver cutting a finished tapestry from the loom. Job sees his life as a completed work and is asking God to bring it to its final conclusion.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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”…
19th Century
Anglican
Even that it would please God ... —The sequence of thought in these verses is obscure and uncertain. The speaker may mean…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Even that it would please God to destroy me Not with an everlasting destruction of body and soul; for destruction fr…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…
