Oh that I might have my request - That is, death. This he desired as the end of his sorrows, either that he might be freed from them, or tha…

Oh that I might have my request.—Baffled by his fellow human beings, he turns, like many others, to God as his only hope,…

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Or that it "might come"; that it might go up to heaven, enter there, …

Job had desired death as the welcome end to his miseries. Eliphaz had reproved him for this, but Job asks for it again with more vehemence than bef…

Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…