Job 6:1
Then Job answered and said,
Job 6:2
O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 6:5
Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or the ox moo over his fodder?
Job 6:6
Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:7
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
Job 6:8
O that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:10
And be it still my consolation, yea, let me exult (in pain that does not spare), that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Job 6:11
What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?
Job 6:12
Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
Job 6:13
Is it not that I have no help in me, and that wisdom is driven quite from me?
Job 6:14
To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:15
My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away,
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which are black because of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.
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What time they grow warm, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
Job 6:19
The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job 6:20
They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there, and were confounded.
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For now ye are nothing. Ye see a terror, and are afraid.
Job 6:22
Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me from your substance?
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Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?
Job 6:24
Teach me, and I will be quiet. And cause me to understand how I have erred.
Job 6:25
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Job 6:26
Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?
Job 6:27
Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
Job 6:28
Now therefore be pleased to look upon me, for truly I shall not lie to your face.
Job 6:29
Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
Job 6:30
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?