Job 6:8

“And that I might have my request, etc.] Or that it “might come” f250 ; that it might go up to heaven, enter there, and come into the ears of the Lord, be attended to, admitted, and received by him, (see <191806>Psalm 18:6); or come to Job, be returned into his bosom, be answered and fulfilled; the same with the desire that “cometh”, which is, when the thing desired is enjoyed, (<201312>Proverbs 13:12); or that what he had requested would come, namely, death, which is sometimes represented as a person that looks in at the windows, and comes into the houses of men, and seizes on them, (<240921>Jeremiah 9:21); and this is what Job wishes for; this was his sole request; this was the thing, the…”

“To desire death is no necessary proof of fitness for death. The ungodly sometimes desire it, so as to escape troubles, without thought of the hereafter. The godly desire it, in order to be with the Lord; but they patiently wait God's will.”

“Oh that I might have my request - To wit, death. This he desired as the end of his sorrows, either that he might be freed from them, or that he might be admitted to a happy world - or both. Would grant me the thing that I long for - Margin, “My expectation.” That is, death. He expected it; he looked out for it; he was impatient that the hour should come. This state of feeling is not uncommon - where sorrows become so accumulated and intense that a man desires to die. It is no evidence, however, of a preparation for death. The wicked are more frequently in this state than the righteous. They are overwhelmed with pain; they see no hope of deliverance from it and they impatiently wish that the…”

“the thing that I long for: Heb. my expectation, Job 6:11-13, Job 17:14-16; Psa 119:81 Job 6:9”

“8 Would that my request were fulfilled, And that Eloah would grant my expectation, 9 That Eloah were willing and would crush me, Let loose His hand and cut me off: 10 Then I should still have comfort - (I should exult in unsparing pain) - That I have not disowned the words of the Holy One. His wish refers to the ending of his suffering by death. Hupfeld prefers to read ותאותי instead of ותקותי ( Job 6:8); but death, which he desires, he even indeed expects. This is just the paradox, that not life, but death, is his expectation. "Cut me off," i.e., my soul or my life, my thread of life ( Job 27:8; Isa 38:12). The optative יתּן מי (Ges. 136, 1) is followed by optative futt., partly of the…”