Tobit 3:6
Good News Translation
"Now treat me as you please. Take my life away and free me from this world; let my body return to the earth. I would be better off dead. I am tormented by insults I don't deserve, and weighed down with despair. Lord, give the command-- bring all my troubles to an end, take me to my eternal rest. Don't reject my prayer. I would rather die than live in misery and face such cruel insults."

New Revised Standard Version
So now deal with me as you will; command my spirit to be taken from me, so that I may be released from the face of the earth and become dust. For it is better for me to die than to live, because I have had to listen to undeserved insults, and great is the sorrow within me. Command, O Lord, that I be released from this distress; release me to go to the eternal home, and do not, O Lord, turn your face away from me. For it is better for me to die than to see so much distress in my life and to listen to insults.”

Contemporary English Version
Do whatever you want with me! Take away my life. Send my body to the grave, and set me free from life on earth. I would rather die than to live in such suffering and great sorrow, listening to insults I don't deserve. Set me free; take me away to my eternal place. But please, Lord, don't turn your back on me.

New American Bible
“So now, deal with me as you please; command my life breath to be taken from me, that I may depart from the face of the earth and become dust. It is better for me to die than to live, because I have listened to undeserved reproaches, and great is the grief within me. “Lord, command that I be released from such anguish; let me go to my everlasting abode; Do not turn your face away from me, Lord. For it is better for me to die than to endure so much misery in life, and to listen to such reproaches!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.

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And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live.

Tobit 3:4
For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.

Tobit 3:5
And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.

Tobit 3:7
Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,

Tobit 3:8
Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.

Context
Tobit 3
5And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee. 6And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to live. 7Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,…
Cross References
Tobit 3:4
For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.

Tobit 3:5
And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.

Tobit 3:7
Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,

Tobit 3:8
Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.



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