Job 6:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Job 6:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Oh that I might have my request - To wit, death. This he desired as the end of his sorrows, either that he might be freed from them, or that he might be admitted to a happy world - or both. Wo...
Job 6:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Oh that I might have my (f) request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! (f) In this he sins double, both in wishing through impatience to die, and also in desiring of God a thi...
Job 6:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz ( Job 5:2 ), and declares that his impatience does but balance his calamity ( Job 6:1 f.). T...
Job 6:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the thing that. long for . my expectation. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, put for the thing desired.
Job 6:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! O that I might have - As Job had no hope that he should ever be redeemed from his present helpless state, he...
Job 6:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Oh that I might have my request, &c.— These two verses, as well as the 11th, with many more that might be quoted to the same purpose, are, as Mr. Peters observes, utterly inconsistent with Job'...
Job 6:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! Have my request. To desire death is no necessary proof of fitness for death. The ungodly sometimes desi...
Job 6:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Job ( Job 6:7 ) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness...
Job 6:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Oh that I might have my request. — Baffled in the direction of his fellow-creatures, he turns, like many others, to God as his only hope, although it is rather from God than in God that his hope li...
Job 6:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for...
Job 6:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of h...
Job 6:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but ra...
Job 6:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) В¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! (9) Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (10)...
Job 6:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And that I might have my request ,.... Or that it "might come" m; that it might go up to heaven, enter there, and come into the ears of the Lord, be attended to, admitted, and received by him, see...
Job 6:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! Ver. 8. Oh that I might have my request! ] How heartily begs Job for death, as a medicine of all his malad...
Job 6:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O that I might have my request! The thing which I so passionately desired, and which, notwithstanding all your vain words, and weak arguments, I still continue to desire, and beseech God to grant m...
Job 6:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz...
Job 6:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!...
Job 6:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

My request, i.e. the thing which I have so passionately desired, and, notwithstanding all your vain words and weak arguments, do still justly continue to desire, to wit, death, as is expressed Jo...
Job 6:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires ferventl...
Job 6:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languis...
Job 6:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Eliphaz We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in li...
Job 6:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"— i.e. of his vexation and impatience...
Job 6:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends his Desire for Death
Job 6:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 17:14-16 ; Job 6:11-13 ; Psalms 119:81

Job 6:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 6:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 6:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 6:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 6:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 6:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 6:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 6:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 6:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 6:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 6:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 6:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 6:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 6:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 6:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 6:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 6:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 6:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 6:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 6:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 6:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge