Job 6:8
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Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?

the thing that I long for.

Job 6:11-13 For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience? . . .

Job 17:14-16 I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister. . . .

Psalm 119:81 My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped.

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
7The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats. 8Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?9And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?…
Cross References
Job 6:7
The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.

Job 6:9
And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

Jonah 4:3
And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

Lexicon
If only
מִֽי־ (mî-)
Interjection
Strong's Hebrew 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix

my request
שֶֽׁאֱלָתִ֑י (še·’ĕ·lā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7596: Request, thing asked for

were granted
תָּב֣וֹא (tā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and God
אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃ (’ĕ·lō·w·ah)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 433: God -- a deity, the Deity

would fulfill
יִתֵּ֥ן (yit·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

my hope:
וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗י (wə·ṯiq·wā·ṯî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8615: A cord, expectancy


Additional Translations
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope: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!

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 my desire!

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 the thing that I long for,

O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
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