Job 6:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

O that I might haue my desire, and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for:

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  • Job 6:11-13 : 11 For what powre haue I to endure? And what is myne end, that my soule might be patient? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my fleshe of brasse? 13 Is it not so that there is in me no helpe? & that my substaunce is taken from me?
  • Job 17:14-16 : 14 I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister. 15 Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for? 16 These shall go downe with me into the pit, and lye with me in the dust.
  • Ps 119:81 : 81 Caph My soule hath faynted after thy saluation: I geue earnest attedaunce vnto thy worde.

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