Job 17:14-16; Job 6:11-13; Psalms 119:81
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...
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...
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...
the thing that. long for . my expectation. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, put for the thing desired.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Job Defends his Desire for Death
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...
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!