Job 6:8
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
Majority Standard Bible
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 refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
Job 3:22who rejoice and greatly exult when they reach the grave?
Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait 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 →