Job 6:8
Who will grant that my petition may arrive and that God may bestow on me what I expect,
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
7The things that my soul was unwilling to touch before, now, because of anguish, are my foods.
9and that he who, at first, had crushed me, will let loose his hand and cut me down?
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4And he continued on, into the desert, for one day’s journey. And when he had arrived, and was sitting under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die. And he said: “It is enough for me, O Lord. Take my soul. For I am no better than my fathers.”
Job 3:22and who rejoice greatly when they have found the grave,
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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 →