Job 6:8
Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Geneva Bible 1599
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
7Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.
9That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But he went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sate downe vnder a iuniper tree, and desired that he might die, and sayde, It is now ynough: O Lord, take my soule, for I am no better then my fathers.
Job 3:22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
Job 10:1My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
Psalms 119:81CAPH. My soule fainteth for thy saluation: yet I waite for thy worde.
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 →