Job 6:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 thy salvation; I hope in thy word.

Job 6:7

My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as 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

Therefore now, O Lord, take my life from me, I beseech thee, 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 broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 3:21

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid 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.