Job Chapter 6 Back Next{6:1} Then
Job answered,
{6:2} "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
{6:3} For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
{6:4} For the
arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit
drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
{6:5} Does the wild
donkey bray when he has
grass? Or does the ox low over his
fodder?
{6:6} Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an
egg?
{6:7} My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
{6:8} "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
{6:9} even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
{6:10} Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
{6:11} What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
{6:12} Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my
flesh of
brass?
{6:13} Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
{6:14} "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
{6:15} My
brothers have dealt deceitfully as a
brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;
{6:16} Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.
{6:17} In the dry season, they vanish. When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
{6:18} The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.
{6:19} The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
{6:20} They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
{6:21} For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
{6:22} Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'
{6:23} or, 'Deliver me from the adversary's hand?' or, 'Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?'
{6:24} "Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
{6:25} How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
{6:26} Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
{6:27} Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
{6:28} Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.
{6:29} Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.
{6:30} Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
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