Job 6:8
Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish are my meats.
9And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4And 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 3:22And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech 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 →