Job 6:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

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  • Job 6:11-13 : 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh made of brass? 13 Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?
  • Job 17:14-16 : 14 I have said to corruption, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'You are my mother, and my sister.' 15 And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it? 16 They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
  • Ps 119:81 : 81 CAPH. My soul faints for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word.

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    35Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.

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    3Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!

    4I would present my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

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    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

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    23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

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    2Oh, that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words are swallowed up.

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    21Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for his neighbor!

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    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

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    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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    8I would seek to God, and to God I would commit my cause:

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    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.