Job 6:8
Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire!
Darby Translation
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
7What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.
9And that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 3:22Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave?
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 119:81CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; I hope in thy 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 →