Job 6:8
Oh, if only I could have what I really want, that God would give me what I most desire—
Free Bible 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
7I just can't touch any food—even the thought makes me feel sick!
9that God would be willing to crush me to death, that he would just let me die!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4and traveled another day's journey into the desert. He sat down under a broom tree and asked to die. “I've had enough now, Lord,” he said. “Take my life! I'm no better than my forefathers.”
Job 3:22They're so incredibly happy when they reach the grave!
Job 10:1I hate my life! Let me speak freely about my complaints—I can't keep my bitterness to myself.
Psalms 119:81I'm exhausted waiting for you to save me, but my hope is 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 →