Job 6:8
Good News Translation
Why won't God give me what I ask? Why won't he answer my prayer?

New Revised Standard Version
“O that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire;

Contemporary English Version
How I wish that God would answer my prayer

New American Bible
Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant what I long for:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Job 6:7
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