AB - Job - 6

6:1  But Job answered and said,

6:2  Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, and take up my grief in a balance together!

6:3  And surely they would be heavier than the sand by the seashore: but, as it seems, my words are vain.

6:4  For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.

6:5  What then? Will the wild donkey bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? Or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has his fodder?

6:6  Shall bread be eaten without salt? Or again, is there taste in empty words?

6:7  For my wrath cannot cease, for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.

6:8  Oh, that He would grant my desire, and my petition might come, and the Lord would grant my hope!

6:9  Let the Lord begin to wound me, but let Him not utterly destroy me.

6:10  Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it, for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

6:11  For what is my strength, that I continue? What is my time, that my soul endures?

6:12  Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

6:13  Or have I not trusted in Him? But help is far from me.

6:14  Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.

6:15  My nearest relations have not regarded me, they have passed me by like a failing brook, or like a wave.

6:16  They who used to reverence me, now have come against me like snow or congealed ice.

6:17  When it has melted at the approach of heat, it is not known what it was.

6:18  Thus I also have been deserted of all, and I am ruined, and have become an outcast.

6:19  Behold the ways of the Temanites, you that mark the paths of the Sabaeans.

6:20  They too that trust in cities and riches shall come to shame.

6:21  But you also have come to me without pity; so that beholding my wounds you are afraid.

6:22  What? Have I made any demand of you? Or do I ask for strength from you,

6:23  to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?

6:24  Teach me, and I will be silent: if in anything I have erred, tell me.

6:25  But as it seems, the words of a true man are vain, because I do not ask strength of you.

6:26  Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.

6:27  Even because you attack the fatherless, and insult your friend.

6:28  But now, having looked upon your countenances, I will not lie.

6:29  Sit down now, and let there not be unrighteousness, and unite again with the just.

6:30  For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?