Job 6:8
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
In Context
7My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Job 3:22Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
Job 10:1My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Psalms 119:81CAPH My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:2-8
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten… Read the whole commentary →