Job 6:8
O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
Young's Literal Translation
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 is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
9That God would please — and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.'
Job 3:22Who are glad — unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
Job 10:1My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 119:81[Kaph.] Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have 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 →