Job 6:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:11-13 : 11 What `is' my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh brazen? 13 Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?
  • Job 17:14-16 : 14 To corruption I have called: -- `Thou `art' my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' -- to the worm. 15 And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it? 16 `To' the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.
  • Ps 119:81 : 81 `Kaph.' Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

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  • Job 6:9-11
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    9 That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

    10 And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.

    11 What `is' my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?

  • Job 31:35-36
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    35 Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

    36 If not -- on my shoulder I take it up, I bind it a crown on myself.

  • Job 23:3-7
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    3 O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

    4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments.

    5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

    6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me.

    7 There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

  • 23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?

  • Job 6:2-4
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    2 O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

    3 For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.

    4 For arrows of the Mighty `are' with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves `for' me!

  • 7 My soul is refusing to touch! They `are' as my sickening food.

  • 9 Lord, before Thee `is' all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid.

  • 21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

  • 18 My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.

  • 13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

  • 8 Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

  • 20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

  • 2 Who doth make me as `in' months past, As `in' the days of God's preserving me?

  • 7 Two things I have asked from Thee, Withhold not from me before I die.

  • 6 And I say, `Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

  • Job 7:15-16
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    15 And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

    16 I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.

  • 5 And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

  • 36 My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,

  • 13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

  • 22 Come in doth all their evil before Thee, And one is doing to them as Thou hast done to me, For all my transgressions, For many `are' my sighs, and my heart `is' sick!

  • 6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?

  • 21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

  • 3 And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'

  • 13 Is not my help with me, And substance driven from me?

  • 5 O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

  • 3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.

  • 24 For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters `are' my roarings.

  • 8 Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, And unto Jehovah I make supplication.

  • 1 Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.

  • 22 My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

  • 8 Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

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    2 Favour me, O Jehovah, for I `am' weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

    3 And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when?

  • 18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

  • 1 My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.

  • 20 Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.

  • 6 I -- I called Thee, for Thou dost answer me, O God, incline Thine ear to me, hear my speech.

  • 17 For I am ready to halt, And my pain `is' before me continually.

  • 19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 9 Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress `is' to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.