Job 6:8
O that my request may come, || That God may grant my hope!
Literal Standard 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
7My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
9That God would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4and he himself has gone a day’s journey into the wilderness, and comes and sits under a certain broom tree, and desires his soul to die, and says, “Enough, now, O YHWH, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.”
Job 3:22Who are glad—to joy, || They rejoice when they find a grave.
Job 10:1“My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 119:81[KAPH] My soul has been consumed for Your salvation, || I have hoped for 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 →