Job 6:8 meaning and explanation

If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:

Job 6:8, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is answering Eliphaz, who has argued that suffering is discipline for sin and that Job should appeal to God. Here Job turns that advice inside out: his one request, the hope he asks God to fulfill, is not relief but death.

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