New Revised Standard Version
If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”

Contemporary English Version
If this is the way you're going to treat me, just kill me now and end my miserable life!

New American Bible
If this is the way you will deal with me, then please do me the favor of killing me at once, so that I need no longer face my distress.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.

But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.

kill me

1 Kings 19:4 And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers.

Job 3:20-22 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul? . . .

Job 6:8-10 Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for? . . .

Job 7:15 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

Jonah 4:3,8,9 And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil. . . .

Philippians 1:20-24 According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. . . .

James 1:4 And patience hath a perfect work: that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

let me not

Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.

Jeremiah 20:18 Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

Zephaniah 3:15 The Lord hath taken away thy judgment, he hath turned away thy enemies: the king of Israel, the Lord, is in the midst of thee, thou shalt fear evil no more.

my wretchedness.