Job 6:8
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
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Referenced Verses
- Job 6:11-13 : 11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass? 13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.
- Job 17:14-16 : 14 If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire? 16 Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?
- Ps 119:81 : 81 <CAPH> My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.
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9If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
10So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.
11Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
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35If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!
36Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;
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3If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!
4I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.
5I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.
6Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
7There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.
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23If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!
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2If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!
3For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
4For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
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7My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
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9Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.
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21So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.
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18Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
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13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!
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8But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
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20Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
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2If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!
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7I have made request to you for two things; do not keep them from me before my death:
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6And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
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15So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
16I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
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5But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;
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36May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.
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13Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
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22Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.
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6If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
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21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
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3So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
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13I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.
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5If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!
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3But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.
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24In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
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8My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.
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1If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
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22May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.
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8Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
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2Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.
3My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?
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18Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
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1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
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20My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
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6My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.
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17My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
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19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
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9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.