Job 6:8

the thing that. long for. my expectation. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, put for the thing desired.

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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 m...
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 im...
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 impatien...
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 eve...
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 M...
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 proo...
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 j...
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...
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 hea...
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 ra...
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 d...
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...
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...
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...
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 st...
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 s...
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;...
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 conti...
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 apprehende...
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...
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 th...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends his Desire for Death
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Oh, that I might have my request, literally, "that it might come," be fulfilled; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! He was cryi...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

Related Commentaries of Job 6:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 6:8