Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just
Job 6:8
In 11 translations
- BSB
- If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
- KJV
- Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!the thing…: Heb. my expectation
- WEB
- “Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
- ASV
- Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
- LSV
- O that my request may come, || That God may grant my hope!
- YLT
- O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
- DBY
- Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant my desire!Eloah
- DRC
- Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
- GNV
- Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
- JPS
- Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
- LXXE
- For oh that he would grant my desire, and my petition might come, and the Lord would grant my hope!
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- מִֽי־יִ֭תֵּן תָּב֣וֹא שֶֽׁאֱלָתִ֑י וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗י יִתֵּ֥ן אֱלֽוֹהַּ׃
- LXX-Br
- Εἰ γὰρ δώῃ καὶ ἔλθοι μου ἡ αἴτησις, καὶ τὴν ἐλπίδα μου δώῃ ὁ Κύριος.
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- Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- Job 17:14–16and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the…
- Job 6:11–13What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient? Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze? Is there any help within me now that success is driven from…
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