Job 6:8
For oh that he would grant my desire, and my petition might come, and the Lord would grant my hope!
Brenton Septuagint
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
7For my wrath cannot cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.
9Let the Lord begin and wound me, but let him not utterly destroy me.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4And he himself went a day's journey in the wilderness, and came and sat under a juniper tree; and asked concerning his life that he might die, and said, Let it be enough now, O Lord, take, I pray thee, my life from me; for I am no better than my fathers.
Job 3:22and would be very joyful if they should gain it?
Job 10:1Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened 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 →