约伯记 6:8-10 CUVS

Oh that I might have my request! Here the second point is taken up. Eliphaz has threatened Job with death, representing it as the last and most terrible of punishments ( Job 4:9 , Job 4:20 , Job 4:21 ; Job 5:2 ). Job's reply is that there is nothing he desires so much as death. His primary wish would have been never to have been born ( Job 3:3-10 ); next to that, he would have desired an early death—the earlier the more acceptable ( Job 3:11-19 ). As both these have been denied... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:8-9

The prayer of despair. This is an awful prayer. Job longs for death, and prays God to crush him. Then there will be an end to his agonies. He has rejected his wife's temptation to suicide ( Job 2:9 ); but he begs that God will take his life. I. IT IS WELL TO BRING THE DESPAIR OF THE SOUL TO GOD . The despair is not utter and complete if it has not stifled the fountains of prayer. When it can be said of any one, "Behold, he prayeth," all hope is not yet gone.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:9

Even that it would please God to destroy me; or, to crush me (Revised Version)—"to break me in pieces" (Lee). That he would let loose his hand ; or, put forth his hand— stretch it out against me threateningly." And cut me off . "Cut me off bit by bit " (Lee); comp. Isaiah 38:12 , where the same word is used of a weaver, who cuts the threads of his loom one by one, until the whole is liberated and comes away. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:10

Then should I yet have comfort . First, the comfort that the end was come, and that he would be spared further sufferings; and further, the still greater comfort that he had endured to the end, and not. denied nor renounced his trust in religion and in all the "words of the Holy One." Professor Lee sees here "the recognition of a future life, expressed in words as plain and obvious as possible". But to us it seems that, if the idea is present at all, it is covered up, latent; only so far... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:8

Oh that I might have my request - To wit, death. This he desired as the end of his sorrows, either that he might be freed from them, or that he might be admitted to a happy world - or both.Would grant me the thing that I long for - Margin, “My expectation.” That is, death. He expected it; he looked out for it; he was impatient that the hour should come. This state of feeling is not uncommon - where sorrows become so accumulated and intense that a man desires to die. It is no evidence, however,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:9

Even that it would please God to destroy me - To put me to death, and to release me from my sorrows; compare Job 3:20-21. The word rendered “destroy” here (דכא dâkâ') means properly to break in pieces, to crush, to trample under foot, to make small by bruising. Here the sense is, that Job wished that God would crush him, so as to take his life. The Septuagint renders it “wound” - τρωσάτω trōsatō. The Chaldee renders it, “Let God, who has begun to make me poor, loose his hand and make me... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:10

Then should I yet have comfort - Dr. Good renders this, “then would I already take comfort.” Noyes, “yet it should still be my consolation.” The literal sense is, “and there would be to me yet consolation;” or “my consolation would yet be.” That is, he would find comfort in the grave (compare Job 3:13 ff), or in the future world.I would harden myself in sorrow - Dr. Good renders this, “and I will leap for joy.” In a similar way Noyes renders it, “I would exult.” So Schultens understands the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:8-9

Job 6:8-9. O that I might have my request! The thing which I so passionately desired, and which, notwithstanding all your vain words, and weak arguments, I still continue to desire, and beseech God to grant me. The thing that I long for! Hebrew, תקותי , tickvati, my hope or expectation. That it would please God to destroy me To end my days and calamities together: that he would let loose his hand Which is now, as it were, bound up or restrained from giving me that deadly blow which... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:10

Job 6:10. Then should I yet have comfort The thoughts of my approaching death would comfort me in all my sorrows, and yield me abundantly more solace than life, with all that worldly safety, and glory, and happiness, for which thou hast advised me to seek unto God. Yea, I would harden myself in sorrow I would bear up with more courage and patience, under all my torments, with the hopes of death and blessedness after death. Let him not spare Let him use all severity against me, so far as... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:8-9

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 6:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 6:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:8-9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 6:10

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