Job 6:8
O that I might have my request, And that God would grant me that which I long for!
Noyes 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
7That which my soul abhorreth to touch Hath become my loathsome food.
9That it would please God to destroy me; That he would let loose his hand, and make an end of me!
Cross References
Job 3:22Who rejoice exceedingly, Yea, exult, when they can find a grave?
Job 10:1I am weary of my life; I will let loose within me my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 119:81My soul fainteth for thy salvation; In thy promise do I trust.
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 →