Job 6:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ “O that I might have my request and that God would grant my desire,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁸ Oh, that what I’ve requested would come and God grant my hope;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Who will grant that my petition may arrive and that God may bestow on me what I expect,

Job 6:8 Cross References

Psalm 119:81

My soul languishes for your salvation; I hope in your word.

Job 6:7

My appetite refuses to touch them; they are like food that is loathsome to me.

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 3:21

who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

Job 3:22

who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

Job 10:1

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.