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Job 6


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1:   But Job answered and said,
2:   Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3:   For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
4:   For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
5:   Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6:   Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7:   The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

8:   Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
9:   Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
10:   Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
11:   What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
12:   Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
13:   Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

14:   To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
15:   My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
16:   Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
17:   What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
18:   The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
19:   The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
20:   They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
21:   For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

22:   Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
23:   Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
24:   Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
25:   How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
26:   Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
27:   Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
28:   Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
29:   Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
30:   Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?