OT.filter - geneva wishing:

geneva@Job:6:8 @ Oh that I might have my (note:)In this he sins double, both in wishing through impatience to die, and also in desiring of God a thing which was not agreeable to his will.(:note) request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

geneva@Job:10:16 @ For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself (note:)Job being sore assaulted in this battle between the flesh and the spirit, breaks out into these affections, wishing rather for short days than long pain.(:note) marvellous upon me.

geneva@Job:31:30 @ Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.

geneva@Proverbs:21:25 @ The desire of the slothful (note:)He thinks to live by wishing and desiring all things, but will make no effort to get anything.(:note) killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the (note:)Solomon is here called a preacher, or one who assembles the people, because he teaches the true knowledge of God, and how men ought to pass their life in this transitory world.(:note) Preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. The Argument - Solomon as a preacher and one that desired to instruct all in the way of salvation, describes the deceivable vanities of this world: that man should not be addicted to anything under the sun, but rather inflamed with the desire of the heavenly life: therefore he confutes their opinions, which set their happiness either in knowledge or in pleasures, or in dignity and riches, wishing that man's true happiness consists in that he is united with God and will enjoy his presence: so that all other things must be rejected, save in as much as they further us to attain to this heavenly treasure, which is sure and permanent, and cannot be found in any other save in God alone.

geneva@Ecclesiastes:9:4 @ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a (note:)He notes the Epicurean and carnal men, who made their body their god, and had no pleasure in this life, wishing rather to be an abased and vile person in this life, then a man of authority and so to die, which is meant by the dog and lion.(:note) living dog is better than a dead lion.

geneva@Jeremiah:15:15 @ O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my (note:)He does not speak this out of a desire for revenge, but wishing that God would deliver his Church from them who he knew to be hardened and incorrigible.(:note) persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:5 @ And say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and (note:)I swore that I would be their God, which manner of oath was observed from all antiquity, where they used to lift up their hands toward the heavens, acknowledging God to be the author of truth and the defender of it, and also the judge of the heart, wishing that he would take vengeance, if they concealed anything which they knew to be truth.(:note) lifted up my hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up my hand to them, saying, I [am] the LORD your God;