Job 6

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¹ Job spoke next. He said:	¹ But Job answered and said,
² If only my misery could be weighed, and al my il s be put together on the scales!	² Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
³ But they outweigh the sands of the seas: what wonder then if my words are wild?	³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
⁴ The arrows of Shaddai stick fast in me, my spirit absorbs their poison, God's terrors stand paradedagainst me.	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 Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox low when its fodder is within reach?	⁵ Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
⁶ Is not food insipid, eaten without salt, is there any taste in egg-white?	⁶ Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
⁷ But the very things my appetite revolts at are now my diet in sickness.	⁷ The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
⁸ Will no one hear my prayer, will not God himself grant my hope?	⁸ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
⁹ May it please God to crush me, to give his hand free play and do away with me!	⁹ Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
¹⁰ This thought, at least, would give me comfort (a thril of joy in unrelenting pain), that I never rebel edagainst the Holy One's decrees.	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 But have I the strength to go on waiting? And why be patient, when doomed to such an end?	¹¹ What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
¹² Is mine the strength of stone, is my flesh made of bronze?	¹² Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
¹³ Can I support myself on nothing? Has not al help deserted me?	¹³ Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
¹⁴ Refuse faithful love to your neighbour and you forsake the fear of Shaddai.	¹⁴ To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
¹⁵ Like the torrent, my brothers have proved deceptive, as fleeting torrents they flow:	¹⁵ My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
¹⁶ the ice makes their waters turgid when, above them, the snow melts,	¹⁶ Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
¹⁷ but, come the burning summer, they run dry, they vanish in the heat of the sun.	¹⁷ What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
¹⁸ Caravans leave the trail to find them, go deep into wastelands, and are lost.	¹⁸ The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
¹⁹ The caravans of Tema look to them, and on them Sheba's convoys build their hopes.	¹⁹ The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
²⁰ Their trust brings only embarrassment, they reach them only to be thwarted.	²⁰ They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
²¹ And this is how you now treat me, terrified at the sight of me, you take fright.	²¹ For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
²² Have I said to you, 'Give me something, make some present for me at your own cost,	²² Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
²³ snatch me from the grasp of an oppressor, ransom me from the grip of a violent man'?	²³ Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
²⁴ Put me right, and I shal say no more; show me where I have been at fault.	²⁴ Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
²⁵ Fair comment can be borne without resentment, but what are your strictures aimed at?	²⁵ How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
²⁶ Do you think mere words deserve censure, desperate speech that the wind blows away?	²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
²⁷ Soon you wil be haggling over the price of an orphan, and sel ing your friend at bargain price!	²⁷ Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
²⁸ Come, I beg you, look at me: man to man, I shal not lie.	²⁸ Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
²⁹ Relent then, no harm is done; relent then, since I am upright.	²⁹ Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
³⁰ Is evil to be found on my lips? Can I not recognise misfortune when I taste it?	³⁰ Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

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