Oh that I might have my [a]desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.

10 Then should I yet have comfort, (though I burn with sorrow, let him not spare) [b]because I have not denied the words of the Holy one.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:8 Herein he sinneth double, both in wishing through impatience to die, and also in desiring of God a thing which was not agreeable to his will.
  2. Job 6:10 That is, let me die at once, before I come to distrust in God’s promise through my impatience.

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