 | Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1856 - 426 pages
...earthly existence and to desire death. So Job exclaimed in his deepest wretchedness, .' Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me...destroy me : that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!"1 And Elias, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.'.'2... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - Holy Spirit - 1856 - 324 pages
...wrong in Job to ask the Lord that he might die. " Oh that I might have my request ! (are his words,) and that God would grant me the thing that I long...that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off." Job vi. 8, 9. It was an unwise and sinful petition, which the Lord in great mercy and wisdom, denied... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Conant - Bible - 1856 - 116 pages
...they are as food which I loathe. 0 that my request might come; that God would grant my longing: and that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off. For it should still be my solace, yea I would exult, in pain that spares not, that I have not denied... | |
 | Harriet A. Olcott - American fiction - 1856 - 466 pages
...when he rose from a seat on which he had sat restlessly, and said, in a muttered tone : " ' Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for.' " He had observed the preparation for the celebration of the Eucharist, but thought not that Jeanie... | |
 | Job (the patriarch) - 1857 - 226 pages
...the white of an egg ? The things that my soul refused to touch Are as my sorrowful meat. Oh that I might have my request ; And that God would grant me...loose his hand, and cut me off ! Then should I yet have comfort ; Yea, I would harden myself in sorrow : let him not spare ; For I have not concealed... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity laid in the balances together! 8 Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 14... | |
 | Walter Riggans - Religion - 1983 - 268 pages
...die at birth. . . ?" (Job 3:11). A little later he makes a plea "that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off" (Job 6:9). Why? Because he would rather have that than have the world believe him to have been unfaithful... | |
 | John C. L. Gibson - Religion - 1985 - 300 pages
...that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire; ''that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off! '"This would be my consolation; I would even exult in pain unsparing; for I have not denied the words... | |
 | W. D. Gann - Business & Economics - 1987 - 432 pages
...troubled and discouraged, but had not lost hope. He opened his Bible and read — Job 6:8: "Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!" Robert knew that he longed for Marie and believed that if he had faith God would answer his prayers.... | |
 | Laura Christian Ford - Education - 1994 - 308 pages
...are glad, when they can find the grave? (3.20-22) He wishes that God would end his life: Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me...that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (6.8-9) Still, Job does not actively consider suicide. When his wife earlier suggested that he curse... | |
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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 destroy me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 
