Job 6:8

JOB REAFFIRMS HIS DESIRE TO DIE

"Oh that I might have my request:

And that God would grant me the thing that

I long for!

Even that it would please God to crush me;

That he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

And be it still my consolation,

Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not,

That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

What is my strength, that I should wait?

And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

Is my strength the strength of stones?

Or is my flesh of brass?

Is it not that I have no help in me,

And that wisdom is driven quite from me."

"Be it still my consolation ... I have not denied the words of the Holy One" (Job 6:10). The fearlessness of Job in his contemplation of death is very significant. "He had nothing to fear in death; his conscience was clear; and the commandments of God he had never denied."[13]

"What is my strength that I should wait" (Job 6:11). "What Job is saying in this and the next verse is that, "I am a human. I am a weak, frail, faltering human";[14] I am not made of brass or stone; this is more than I can bear. Therefore, I pray for God to take me home. "Job's resources were all spent; he had no endurance left."[15]