 | Albert Barnes - 1854 - 442 pages
...loathing to him, had become his painful and distressing food. The idea may be either that he was re8 Oh that I might have my request ; and that God would grant me l the thing that I long for ; 1 my expectation. duced to the greatest pain and distress in partaking... | |
 | Alfred William Snape - 1855 - 290 pages
...poison whereof drinketh up my spirit : the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. Oh that I might have my request ; and that God would...for ! Even that it would please God to destroy me ; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off ! " 1 Look once more : it was so in the case of... | |
 | Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1856 - 426 pages
...renounce 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...for : even that it would please God to destroy me : that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!"1 And Elias, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 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 for ! Even that it would please God to destroy me ; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off." Job vi. 8, 9. It was an unwise and sinful petition,... | |
 | Harriet A. Olcott - 1856 - 466 pages
...pronounced, 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
...taste in 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...for ! Even that it would please God to destroy me ; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off ! Then should I yet have comfort ; Yea, I would... | |
 | 1857 - 224 pages
...taste in 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...for ! Even that it would please God to destroy me ; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! Then should I yet have comfort ; Yea, I would harden... | |
 | William De Burgh - 1858 - 1060 pages
...when he broke the silence for which at first he is commended, and gave vent to such language as, " Oh! that. I might have my request, and that God would...for ! Even that it would please God to destroy me ; that He would loose His hand, and cut me off!" (ch. vi. 8, 9). And again, his complaint that so short... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 610 pages
...for death, but it cometh not. He entreats the Almighty to cut short the thread of his existence : 0 that I might have my request, and that God would grant...for ! even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would loose his hand and cut me off. The harsh language of his professed friends he retorts... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1858 - 294 pages
...refrain,—we may live, it must not be concealed from self, to regret the years that are to come. ' O that I might have my request, and that God would ' grant me the thing that I long for ! What is my strength, ' that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should ' prolong my life'... | |
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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! 
