Job 6:8
Oh that some one would grant the accomplishment of my request; and that God would grant me the fulfillment of my hope!
Leeser Tanakh
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
7My soul refuseth to touch them: they are unto me like disgusting food.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But he himself went forward into the wilderness a day's journey, and he came and sat down under a certain broom-bush: and he requested for himself to die; and he said, It is enough, now, O Lord, take away my soul; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 3:22Who would rejoice even to exulting, who would be glad could they but find a grave?
Job 10:1My soul is disgusted with my life; I will give free vent to my complaint over myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 119:81CAPH. My soul ardently desireth for thy salvation: for thy word do I wait.
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 →