Job 6:8
Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.
9That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day’s journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub,—and asked for his life, that he might die, and said—Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.
Job 3:22Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:
Job 10:1My soul doth loathe my life,—I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 119:81[KAPH.] My soul, hath languished for thy salvation, For thy word, have I hoped.
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 →