Job 6:1 ←
But Job answered and said,
Job 6:2 ←
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job 6:3 ←
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
Job 6:4 ←
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.
Job 6:5 ←
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 6:6 ←
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:7 ←
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Job 6:8 ←
Oh 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 destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 6:10 ←
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.
Job 6:11 ←
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job 6:12 ←
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Job 6:13 ←
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Job 6:14 ←
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Job 6:15 ←
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
Job 6:16 ←
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
Job 6:17 ←
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Job 6:18 ←
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
Job 6:19 ←
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Job 6:20 ←
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Job 6:21 ←
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
Job 6:22 ←
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Job 6:23 ←
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Job 6:24 ←
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Job 6:25 ←
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job 6:26 ←
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Job 6:27 ←
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Job 6:28 ←
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
Job 6:29 ←
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Job 6:30 ←
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
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