Job 6:8
Oh, that I might have my request; 1 oh, that God would grant me the thing I long for: 1
Unlocked Literal 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
7I refuse to touch them; 1 they are like disgusting food to me. 1
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. He requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough, now, Yahweh; take away my life, for I am no better than my dead ancestors.”
Job 3:22Why is light given to one who rejoices very much 1 and is glad when he finds the grave? 1
Job 10:1I am weary of my life; 1 I will give free expression to my complaint; 1 I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 1
Psalms 119:81I faint with longing that you might rescue me! 1 I hope in your word. 1
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 →