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THE MESSAGE
Job 6:8
Bible Study Resources
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- InternationalParallel Translations
If only my request would be grantedand God would provide what I hope for:
"Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
"Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope,
"How I wish that I might have what I ask for and that God would give me what I hope for.
"Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!
"Oh that my request would come to pass, And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
"Oh, that my request might come to pass, And that God would grant my hope!
"Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!
Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
"Oh that my request might come to pass,And that God would grant my hope!
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
How I wish that God would answer my prayer
"If only I could have my wish granted, and God would give me what I'm hoping for —
Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!
"I wish I could have what I ask for. I wish God would give me what I want.
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer?
"O that my request may come, and that God may grant my hope,
Who will give it that my desire might come, and God would grant my longing;
O that I might haue my desyre: O yt God wolde graunte me the thynge, that I longe for:
Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
O that I might haue my desire, and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for:
Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
O that I might haue my request! and that God would graunt mee the thing that I long for!
For oh that he would grant my desire, and my petition might come, and the Lord would grant my hope!
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for.
Who yyueth, that myn axyng come; and that God yyue to me that, that Y abide?
Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
"Oh, that I might have my request, That God would grant me the thing that I long for!
"Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant my desire.
"If only I might get what I ask for, and that God would give me what I desire!
"O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;
Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!
Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
"O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;
O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
"Oh that my request might come to pass, And that God would grant my longing!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the thing that I long for: Heb. my expectation, Job 6:11-13, Job 17:14-16, Psalms 119:81
Reciprocal: Numbers 11:15 - kill me Job 10:1 - My soul Jonah 4:3 - take
Cross-References
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.
God sticks by all who love him, but it's all over for those who don't.
A good person basks in the delight of God , and he wants nothing to do with devious schemers.
This is the way God put it: "They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance. You'll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides, And sit back and enjoy the fruit— oh, how you'll enjoy those harvests! The time's coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim: ‘On your feet! Let's go to Zion, go to meet our God !'"
If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don't call your wages a gift. But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it—you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked—well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.
The Loyal Minority Does this mean, then, that God is so fed up with Israel that he'll have nothing more to do with them? Hardly. Remember that I, the one writing these things, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham out of the tribe of Benjamin. You can't get much more Semitic than that! So we're not talking about repudiation. God has been too long involved with Israel, has too much invested, to simply wash his hands of them. Do you remember that time Elijah was agonizing over this same Israel and cried out in prayer? God, they murdered your prophets, They trashed your altars; I'm the only one left and now they're after me! And do you remember God's answer? I still have seven thousand who haven't quit, Seven thousand who are loyal to the finish. It's the same today. There's a fiercely loyal minority still—not many, perhaps, but probably more than you think. They're holding on, not because of what they think they're going to get out of it, but because they're convinced of God's grace and purpose in choosing them. If they were only thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago.
But because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I'm not about to let his grace go to waste. Haven't I worked hard trying to do more than any of the others? Even then, my work didn't amount to all that much. It was God giving me the work to do, God giving me the energy to do it. So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives.
God's readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation's available for everyone! We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.
Gill's Notes on the 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
Psalms 18:6; or come to Job, be returned into his bosom, be answered and fulfilled; the same with the desire that "cometh", which is, when the thing desired is enjoyed, Proverbs 13:12; or that what he had requested would come, namely, death, which is sometimes represented as a person that looks in at the windows, and comes into the houses of men, and seizes on them, Jeremiah 9:21; and this is what Job wishes for; this was his sole request; this was the thing, the one thing, that lay uppermost in his mind, and he was most importunately solicitous for:
and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! death, as the following words explain it; this is not desirable by nature, but contrary to it; it is itself a penal evil, the sanction and curse of the law; it is an enemy, and a very formidable one, the king of terrors; and, though a very formidable, one, is desired by good men from a principle of grace, and with right views, to be rid of sin, and to be with Christ; yet it often is done by persons in melancholy, sullen, and humorous fits, when they cannot have what they would, as in Rachel, Elijah, and Jonah, Genesis 30:1; and because of sore troubles and afflictions, which was the present case of Job; though it must be said that it was not, as is frequently the case with wicked men, through the horrors of a guilty conscience, which he was free of; and he had faith, and hope of comfort in another world, and in some degree he submitted to the will and pleasure of God; though pressed with too much eagerness, importunity, and passion: and it may be observed, that Job did not make request to men, to his servants, or friends about him, to dispatch him, as Abimelech and Saul did; nor did he lay hands on himself, or attempt to do it, as Saul, Ahithophel, and Judas: the wretched philosophy of the stoics was not known in Job's time, which not only makes suicide lawful, but commends it as an heroic action; no, Job makes his, request to the God of his life, who had given it to him, and had maintained it hitherto, and who only had a right to dispose of it; he asks it as a favour, he desires it as a gift, he had nothing else to ask, nothing was more or so desirable to him as death.
m תבוא "ut veniat", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt, Michaelis; "utinam veniret", Schultens.
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.
Would grant me the thing that I long for - Margin, “My expectation.” That is, death. He expected it; he looked out for it; he was impatient that the hour should come. This state of feeling is not uncommon - where sorrows become so accumulated and intense that a man desires to die. It is no evidence, however, of a preparation for death. The wicked are more frequently in this state than the righteous. They are overwhelmed with pain; they see no hope of deliverance from it and they impatiently wish that the end had come. They are stupid about the future world, and either suppose that the grave is the end of their being, or that in some undefinable way they will be made happy hereafter. The righteous, on the other hand, are willing to wait until God shall be pleased to release them, feeling that He has some good purpose in all that they endure, and that they do not suffer one pang too much. Such sometimes were Job’s feelings; but here, as in some other instances, no one can doubt that he was betrayed into unjustifiable impatience under his sorrows, and that he expressed an improper wish to die.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:8. O that I might have — As Job had no hope that he should ever be redeemed from his present helpless state, he earnestly begs God to shorten it by taking away his life.
