Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for!
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!
Bible in Basic English
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
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!
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 The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow. 8 "O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for! 9 That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.
Names
Cross References
Job 6:11-13
What power have I to endure? Or, what is mine end, that my soul might be patient?
Job 17:14-16
I call corruption my father, and the worms call I my mother and my sister.
Psalm 119:81
{Khaf} My soul longeth for thy salvation, for my good hope is in thy word.