Job 6:8
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Webster 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
7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.
9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 3:22Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 119:81CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy 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 →