The Meaning of Job 6:8 Explained

Job 6:8

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

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

Darby: Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!

ASV: Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Discover Job 6:8

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 6:8?

MEANING: What does Job 6:8 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 6:8 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 6:8?

What is the context of Job 6:8?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 6:8 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"

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 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.

Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.

From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

¹ Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
⁸ He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
¹⁴ He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:8 mean?

Oh that I might I might have my request that the thing that I long for would grant [me] God

מִֽי־ יִ֭תֵּן תָּב֣וֹא שֶֽׁאֱלָתִ֑י ! וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗י יִתֵּ֥ן אֱלֽוֹהַּ

מִֽי־	Oh that
Parse: Interjection Root: מִי Sense: who?, whose?, whom?, would that, whoever, whosoever.
יִ֭תֵּן	I might
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: יָתַן Sense: to give, put, set.
תָּב֣וֹא	I might have
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person feminine singular Root: בֹּוא Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.
שֶֽׁאֱלָתִ֑י	my request
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular Root: שְׁאֵלָה Sense: request, thing asked for, demand.
! וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗י	that the thing that I long for
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular Root: תִּקְוָה Sense: cord.
יִתֵּ֥ן	would grant [me]
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: יָתַן Sense: to give, put, set.
אֱלֽוֹהַּ	God
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: אֱלֹוהַּ Sense: God.

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