Book 18 Job Chapter 006
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| 006:001 | But Job answered and said,
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| 006:002 | Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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| 006:003 | For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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| 006:004 | 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.
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| 006:005 | Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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| 006:006 | Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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| 006:007 | The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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| 006:008 | Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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| 006:009 | Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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| 006:010 | 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.
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| 006:011 | What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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| 006:012 | Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
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| 006:013 | Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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| 006:014 | To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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| 006:015 | My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
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| 006:016 | Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
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| 006:017 | What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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| 006:018 | The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
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| 006:019 | The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
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| 006:020 | They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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| 006:021 | For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
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| 006:022 | Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
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| 006:023 | Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
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| 006:024 | Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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| 006:025 | How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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| 006:026 | Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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| 006:027 | Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
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| 006:028 | Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
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| 006:029 | Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
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| 006:030 | Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? |