Jubilee2000 - Job - 6

6:1  And Job answered and said,

6:2  Oh that my grief and calamity were justly weighed and laid equally in the balances!

6:3  For it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore, my words are swallowed up.

6:4  For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me; my spirit drinks of the poison; and terrors of God combat me.

6:5  Does the wild ass bray when he has grass? Does the ox low over his fodder?

6:6  Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? Or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?

6:7  The things [that] my soul refused to touch [before, now] by my sorrow [are] my food.

6:8  Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

6:9  Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

6:10  Then should my comfort grow; I would hold on to sorrow without mercy; for I have not contradicted the words of the Holy One.

6:11  What [is] my strength that I should hope? What [is] my end that I should prolong my life?

6:12  [Is] my strength the strength of stones? Or [is] my flesh of steel?

6:13  Am I not doing all that I can, and [even with all this] I lack the power to do anything?

6:14  He that is afflicted [deserves] mercy from his friend; but he has forsaken the fear of the Almighty.

6:15  My brethren have lied to me as a brook; they passed away as an impetuous stream,

6:16  which was hidden by ice and covered by snow.

6:17  Which in the time of heat, they vanish; when they are heated, they disappear out of their place;

6:18  they turn aside out of the paths of their way; they go to nothing and perish.

6:19  The travelers of Tema looked; the traveling companies of Sheba waited for them.

6:20  They were put to shame because of their hope; they came there and found them confused.

6:21  Now ye are certainly as they; ye have seen the torment and are afraid.

6:22  Did I say, Bring unto me and pay for me out of your substance

6:23  and deliver me from the enemy's hand and ransom me from the hand of the mighty?

6:24  Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand in what I have erred.

6:25  How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove?

6:26  Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and [throw] to the wind words that are lost?

6:27  Ye also overwhelm the fatherless and dig a pit before your friend.

6:28  Now, therefore, if ye desire, look upon me and [see] if I shall lie in your presence.

6:29  Turn now, and there is no iniquity; return again [to look] for my righteousness in this.

6:30  If there is iniquity in my tongue or if my taste cannot discern the torments.: