Job 6:8
“Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Even that it would please God to destroy me,.... Not with an everlasting destruction of body and soul; for destruction…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Oh that I might have my request - To wit, death. This he desired as the end of his sorrows, either that he might be…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 6:8-13
Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921Job 6:8-9
So keenly does Job realize the loathsomeness of his sufferings that he forgets his defence and breaks out into a…