Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 6:8
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.
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.
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 GRAN...
CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...
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 impatience does but balance his calamity (Job 6:1 f.). The dr...
THE THING THAT. LONG FOR. my expectation. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, put for the thing desired....
Job 6:1-13. Job defends the violence of his complaints and his despair Eliphaz had made no reference directly to sin on Job's part; but he drew dark pictures of the evilness of human nature before th...
So keenly does Job realize the loathsomeness of his sufferings that he forgets his defence and breaks out into a passionate cry for death, which he calls the thing that he longs for....
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 Mr. Peters observes, utterly inconsistent with Job's belie...
2. In his wasted condition, death is desirable. (Job 6:8-13) TEXT 6:8-13 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...
_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 proof of fitness for death. The ungodly sometimes desire it...
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 justifies his complaints. He bemoans the heaviness of Go...
Job was weak. Both his body and his spirit were weak (see verse 12). Job felt as if he could not even control his own words (verse 3, verse 5). So, Job prayed a sad prayer. He prayed that he would die...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 6 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...
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 it is rather from God than in God that his hope lies....
מִֽי ־יִ֭תֵּן תָּבֹ֣וא שֶֽׁאֱלָתִ֑י וְ֝ תִקְוָתִ֗י...
VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...
“A DECEITFUL BROOK” Job 6:1 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain,...
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 deduction which Eliphaz' argument suggested, but rat...
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 impatience to die, and also in desiring of God a thin...
(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 he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (10) T...
Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we took a look at Eliphaz' speech to Job. 1. Eliphaz based the authority for what he said to Job upon the visitation of an angel. 2. But, we al...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 Psa...
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 begs Job for death, as a medicine of all his maladie...
_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 still continue to desire, and beseech God to grant me...
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 crying and longing for release from his misery....
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 stirring language to Eliphaz. He knew that Eliphaz had...
THE THING THAT I LONG FOR!: _ Heb._ my expectation...
Job hopes for death, that God would grant his request to die (Job 3:20-23), and loose His hand from sustaining Job's life. "The Hebrew verb rendered 'loose' carries the idea of settling prisoners free...
8-13 Job had desired death as the happy end of his miseries. For this, Eliphaz had reproved him, but he asks for it again with more vehemence than before. It was very rash to speak thus of God destro...
MY REQUEST, i.e. the thing which I have so passionately desired, and, notwithstanding all your vain words and weak arguments, do still justly continue to desire, to wit, death, as is expressed JOB 6:9...
Job 6:8 have H935 (H8799) request H7596 God H433 grant H5414 (H8799) for H8615 the thing that I long for - Heb. my expectation,...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz. His appeal for pity. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: No one can judge another justly without much prayer for divine guidance. Affliction does not necess...
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 men in the back with a poisoned arrow. He languished...
_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 that is to be deprecated. He came upon it late in life....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:1 Job responds to Eliphaz’s words of “comfort.” ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 6:8 Job expresses a hope for death at God’s hand, to end his suffering. ⇐ ⇔...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Justifies his complaint (Job 6:2). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehended nor appreciated by his friends. Desires fervently that his...
EXPOSITION Job 6:1. and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1. he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of his "grief"—_i.e._ of his vexation and impatience (Job 6:1); (2)
So Job responds to him and he says, Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamities laid in the balances together! (Job 6:1-2) Now, of course, picturesque, you got to see it. In those days...
Job 17:14; Job 6:11; Psalms 119:81...