Job 6:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Job 6:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:81
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Job 6:11-13
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? …
Job 17:14-16
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Dead (people)Death Dying Life Man Sleep

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, Job 3:1-26. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. To desire death is no necessary proof of fitness for death. The ungodly sometimes desire it, so as to escape troubles, without thought of the hereafter. The godly desire it, in order to be with the Lord; but they patiently wait God’s will.