Matthew Henry Commentary Job 6:8-13

"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 crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One. What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient? Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass? Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?" — Job 6:8-13 (ASV)

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 before.

It was very rash to speak this way of God destroying him. Who, for one hour, could endure the wrath of the Almighty, if He let loose His hand against him? Let us rather say with David, O spare me a little.

Job bases his comfort on the testimony of his conscience, that he had been, in some degree, serviceable to the glory of God. Those who have grace in them, who have the evidence of it and actively exercise it, have wisdom in them, which will be their help in the worst of times.