Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
New American Standard Bible
And that God would grant my longing!
King James Version
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Holman Bible
and God would provide what I hope for:
International Standard Version
"Who will grant my wish? I wish God would grant what I'm hoping for:
A Conservative Version
O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
American Standard Version
Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Amplified
“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Darby Translation
Oh that I might have my request, and that +God would grant my desire!
Julia Smith Translation
Who will give my asking shall come? and will God give my expectation?
King James 2000
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Lexham Expanded Bible
"{O that} my request may come, and [that] God may grant my hope,
Modern King James verseion
Oh that I might have my desire, and that God would grant the thing that I long for!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for!
NET Bible
"Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!
New Heart English Bible
"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
The Emphasized Bible
Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!
Webster
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
World English Bible
"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
Youngs Literal Translation
O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
Themes
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
7 My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food. 8 If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire! 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
Names
Cross References
Job 6:11-13
Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
Job 17:14-16
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Psalm 119:81
My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.