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Job 6

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Berean Standard Bible

6:1

Then Job answered and said:

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6:2

Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!

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6:3

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore are my words broken.

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6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up; the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

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6:5

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

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6:6

Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?

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6:7

My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as the sickness of my flesh.

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6:8

Oh that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! .

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6:9

Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!

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6:10

Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would exult in pain, though He spare not; For I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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6:11

What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

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6:12

Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

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6:13

Is it that I have no help in me, and that sound wisdom is driven quite from me?

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6:14

To him that is ready to faint kindness is due from his friend, Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

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6:15

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that overflow,

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Which are black by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow hideth itself;

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6:17

What time they wax warm, they vanish, When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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6:18

The paths of their way do wind, They go up into the waste, and are lost.

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6:19

The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them—

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They were ashamed because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.

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For now ye are become His; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

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6:22

Did I say: ‘Give unto me’? Or: ‘Offer a present for me of your substance’?

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or: ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? Or: ‘Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors’?

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6:24

Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

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6:25

How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing argue?

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6:26

Do ye hold words to be an argument, But the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?

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6:27

Yea, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, And dig a pit for your friend.

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6:28

Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face.

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6:29

Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

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6:30

Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?

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