Job 6:9 — King James Version← Study notes
“Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!”
Job 6:9 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Job 6:96 words
ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
Church Fathers on Job 6:9
That He That hath begun would bruise me! For very often the Lord begins to work in us the bruising of our vicious habits, but when the mind is lifted up at the very first step of its progress, and when it already exalts itself as on the ground of its virtuous attainments, it opens an entrance to the adversary, that rages against it, who penetrating into the depths of the heart, dashes in pieces all that he may find therein springing from the earnestness of a good beginning,…
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